How successful is the Shouldice Hospital ? Shouldice Hospital Limited is an 89 bed healthcare facility located in the suburbs of Toronto‚ Canada. The 17‚000 square foot facility is housed on a sprawling 130 acre estate and specializes in repairing external abdominal hernias. Currently‚ 7‚600 surgeries are performed each year on patients from all across the United States and Canada. Founded by Dr. Earle Shouldice circa 1940‚ the organization enjoys a reputation for effectively using a unique surgical
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Shouldice hospital is located in Toronto. Éäñýèçêå áðü ôïí Dr. Earle Shouldice ï ïðïßïò êáôÜ ôçí äéÜñêåéá ôïõ 2 ðáãêüóìéï ìåôÜ áðü ìåëÝôç áíáêÜëõøå íÝá ôå÷íéêÞ ãéá íá ãéáôñåýåé hernias êáé ôáõôü÷ñïíá íá Ý÷ïõí ïé áóèåíåßò fast recovery. ¹ôáí êáëýôåñç ôå÷íéêÞ áðü üëåò ôéò Üëëåò åðåéäÞ: a) high quality(÷áìçëü ðïóïóôü åðáíåìöÜíéóçò 0.8%) b)fast recovery 4-7 days c)low cost Target market: people with external type of abdominal hernias 82%Ýêáíáí ãéá ðñþôç öïñÜ êáé ôï 18% åß÷áí îáíáêÜíåé óå Üëëï íïóïêïìåßï
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The Shouldice Hospital has been very successful during the past years and has grown to become the “world’s leading centre of excellence for hernia repair”. Based on research‚ • Shouldice has expanded their room capacity to 89 beds with 5 specialized operating rooms and a staff of about 150 people (nurses‚ doctors‚ administrative) that collaborate together to provide a higher quality health care service to the patient. • The innovative method used for sedating a patient with a sleeping pill
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Group #8 Assignment #1: Shouldice Hospital case 1. How does the hospital’s operations strategy support its business strategy? 2. How well is the hospital currently utilizing its beds? 3. Evaluate the effects of the following two alternatives on the utilization of the bed capacity. a) a. Adding operations on Saturday (assuming that 30 operations would still be performed each day). b) b. Increasing the number of beds by 50 percent (assuming that the hospital would increase the
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1. Executive Summary Shouldice hospital is a specialized hospital in the repair of external abdominal hernias in Canada. The hospital was established by Dr. Shouldice the founder of a new and superior surgical technique‚ now known as the Shouldice method‚ for repairing hernias which yields better medical results as well as a significantly shorter recovery time. The Shouldice Hospital is a successful organization and admired by most of the people who had relation with it or who have heard of it
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SHOULDICE HOSPITAL LIMITED The problem under analysis is how to best increase the hospital’s capacity to serve more patients while at the same time maintaining control over quality of service delivered as well as sustaining existing high levels of employee and patient (customer) satisfaction. SWOT analysis Strengths  Unique and defined Surgical procedure (could not be varied)  Facility that encourages movement  Up to date equipment  Less time taken (time
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How does Shouldice offer a superior value proposition relative to its customers‚ remain successful‚ and balance low cost with high quality? Data Summary Benefits purchased by the consumer: Shouldice Value Proposition • Early ambulation following surgery o Use of local anesthetic o Nature of procedure • Design of facility o 130 acres o 17‚000 square feet o 89 beds • Dr. Casim Degani‚ internationally recognized authority • Specialized procedure • Patients administered anesthetic
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Operations Management Shouldice Hospital January‚ 2013 Table of Contents Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................3 Scope .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Analysis ......................................................................................................................
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Shouldice Hospital Limited 1. How well is the hospital currently utilizing its beds? Shouldice Hospital is currently utilizing its beds quite well. Under the Shouldice method‚ they are operating with 90 beds‚ admitting 30 patients per day‚ and not accepting any new patients on Saturdays. Each patient admitted generally stays in the hospital for 3 days and is discharged on the fourth morning. By examining Exhibit 4.7‚ it is apparent that the hospital’s capacity utilization is roughly 71.43%
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Bottleneck analysis: Also see enclosed Process flow chart (Appendix 1). Hospital is able to perform 42 exams/afternoon and send 38 patients to the operation rooms. But surgery capacity is 33 operations/day only. Bottleneck (number of operations/day) is therefore located between these two processes. Hospital performs 33 operations/day = demand 116 beds/Wed‚Thu and 99 beds/Tue. Demand is 116 and current capacity is 89. Bottleneck is the number of beds available. It is necessary to increase capacity
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