A hospital has 4 operating rooms the are used for heart surgeries. Each operating room has the same design capacity ( surgeries per day). 2 surgeons are allocated for each operating room for conducting surgeries. The hospital breaks even at 20 surgeries per day which corresponds to a capacity utilization of 50% that is computed based on a daily design capacity of hospital, On September 10th, the hospital had to shut down one of its operating rooms due to technical problems and 2 surgeons working for this operating room were given a day off.
a. What is the daily design capacity for the hospital in surgeries per day?
b. What is the daily design capacity of each operating room in surgeries per day?
c. What was the daily effective capacity of the hospital in September 10?
d. If the hospital performed a total of 18 surgeries on September 10 what was the efficiency of the hospital on this particular day?
e. If the hospital performed a total of 18 surgeries, what was the average surgeon productivity on September 10?
f. On October 1, the hospital performed 32 surgeries using all operating rooms and surgeons. What was the average surgeon productivity for the hospital on this day?
g. What is the percentage change in the average surgeon productivity for the hospital from September 10 to October 1?