Assessing Hospital System Resilience to Events Involving Physical Damage and Demand Surge

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dc.contributor.advisorMiller-Hooks, Elise
dc.contributor.authorShahverdi, Bahar
dc.creatorShahverdi, Bahar
dc.date2019-01-31
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-02T16:01:11Z
dc.date.available2019-07-02T16:01:11Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the effectiveness of formalized collaboration strategies through which patients can be transferred and resources, including staff, equipment and supplies can be shared across hospitals in response to a disaster incident involving mass casualties and area-wide damage. Inflicted damage can affect hospital infrastructure and its supporting lifelines, thus impacting capacity and capability or, ultimately, services that are provided. Using a discrete event simulation framework and underlying open queuing network conceptualization, impacts on critical resources, physical spaces and demand are modeled and the system’s resilience to these hazard events is evaluated. Findings from numerical experiments on a case study involving multiple hospitals spaced over a large metropolitan region replicating a system similar to the Johns Hopkins Hospital System show the potential of strategies involving not only transfers and resource sharing, but also joint capacity enhancement alternatives.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/11528
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectHealthcare resilience
dc.subjectHospital operations in MCI
dc.subjectCollaboration
dc.subjectInterhospital coalition
dc.subjectDisaster preparedness
dc.subjectDiscrete event simulation
dc.titleAssessing Hospital System Resilience to Events Involving Physical Damage and Demand Surge
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.disciplineOperations Research
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelMaster's
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science in Operations Research

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