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SRI RAMASWAMY
MEMORIAL
AQFAKUDEEN
CASE STUDY C05/007
XIME CHENNAI
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The Importance of Length of Stay in Hospitals The average length of stay (ALOS) in a hospital is used to
gauge the efficiency of a healthcare facility.it is defined as inpatient stay requiring continuous and active
medical, nursing which could not be provided through external care and outpatient care.

AVERAGE LENGTH OF STAY – No. of inpatient days

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No. of inpatient

The Bed Occupancy Rate(BOR) – A measure of hospital efficiency, It reflects efficiency in the use of
hospital beds where a hospital beds where a hospital is considered to be operate efficiently at a BOR of
85%.

Bed occupancy rate – ALOS * No. of inpatients

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Bed count * No of days
 BED OCCUPANCY RATE OF EACH DEPARTMENT
Month A B C D E F G H I J
January 63% 61% 63% 74% 67% 57% 76% 74% 59% 52%
February 75% 62% 70% 83% 76% 69% 88% 83% 60% 66%
March 78% 74% 69% 91% 76% 70% 87% 59% 59% 78%
April 81% 76% 72% 94% 78% 73% 90% 60% 61% 81%
May 73% 76% 72% 72% 61% 73% 75% 77% 41% 84%
June 80% 70% 85% 96% 73% 76% 90% 93% 41% 73%
July 77% 72% 73% 101% 93% 82% 88% 105% 53% 76%
August 73% 82% 66% 99% 77% 52% 86% 102% 63% 80%
September 46% 83% 66% 100% 75% 62% 87% 99% 57% 84%
October 67% 80% 69% 65% 66% 59% 72% 73% 45% 82%
November 71% 74% 72% 64% 82% 72% 75% 60% 68% 86%
December 63% 60% 70% 69% 71% 62% 66% 65% 64% 66%
70% 73% 71% 84% 75% 67% 81% 79% 56% 76%
Approach 1 Approach 2

 Changing ALOS (not advisable)  Changing Number of Beds

(Department wise)

Departments Number of Beds Number of Beds

In-Patients ALOS
In-Patients ALOS
(Avg Length of Stay
Departments (Avg Length of Stay A 130 107.9117
for the Year)
for the Year)
(Suggested)
B 130 111.0406

A 5.22 6.295022 C 60 49.84824

B 4.48 5.246423 D 70 69.0162

C 10.57 12.73545 E 60 52.70576
D 6.26 6.348869
F 190 150.4418
E 7.27 8.276318
F 6.98 8.816429 G 150 143.7699
G 9.12 9.515653 H 35 32.59514
H 2.94 3.157852
I 65 42.72505
I 8.03 12.22764
J 6.52 7.322218 J 125 111.25
 Solution to increase Average BOR to 85%

Departments
Month A B C D E F G H I J
January 76% 72% 76% 75% 76% 72% 79% 79% 89% 58%
February 90% 72% 85% 84% 87% 87% 92% 89% 91% 74%
March 94% 86% 83% 92% 86% 89% 90% 63% 90% 88%
April 97% 89% 86% 95% 89% 92% 93% 65% 93% 91%
May 88% 89% 87% 73% 70% 92% 78% 83% 62% 95%
June 96% 82% 102% 97% 83% 95% 93% 100% 63% 82%
July 93% 84% 88% 102% 106% 104% 92% 113% 80% 85%
August 87% 96% 79% 100% 88% 66% 90% 109% 95% 90%
September 55% 98% 80% 101% 86% 79% 91% 106% 87% 95%
October 81% 94% 83% 66% 75% 75% 75% 79% 69% 92%
November 86% 87% 86% 65% 94% 91% 78% 64% 103% 97%
December 75% 71% 84% 70% 81% 78% 69% 70% 97% 74%
AVERAGE - 85% 85% 85% 85% 85% 85% 85% 85% 85% 85%
 Approach 3: Changing No. of beds for every month

BOR after changing Number of beds

Month D
the no. of beds after change
January 74% 85% 61
February 83% 85% 68
March 91% 85% 75
April 94% 85% 77
May 72% 85% 59
June 96% 85% 79
July 101% 85% 83
August 99% 85% 81
September 100% 85% 82
October 65% 85% 53
November 64% 85% 53
December 69% 85% 57
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