The Dahlia Medical Center has 31 labor? rooms, 19 combination labor and delivery

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The Dahlia Medical Center has 31 labor? rooms, 19 combination labor and delivery? rooms, and 5 delivery rooms. All of these facilities operate around the clock. Time spent in labor rooms varies from hours to? days, with an average of about a day. The average uncomplicated delivery requires about one hour in the delivery room. The average time in a combination? labor-delivery room is about 24 hours. During an exceptionally busy? three-day period, 91 healthy babies were born at Dahlia Medical Center. 51 babies were born in separate labor and delivery rooms and 40 were born in combined labor and delivery rooms. Which of the facilities? (labor rooms, combination labor and delivery? rooms, or delivery? rooms) had the greatest utilization? rate?


Whats the highest utilization rate of _____%

Explanation / Answer

operation time

capacity of labour room =31*3 days*24 hrs =2232 hrs

utilization of labour room = 51*24 / 2232 =54.8387%

capacity of combined labour room=19*3*24 =1368 hrs

utilization of combined labour room =40*24/1368=70.1754%

capacity of Delievery room = 5*3*24=360 hrs

utilization of Delievery room = 51 * 1 baby/hr / 360 =14.1667%

Answer

combined labour and delievery rooms has the highest capacity as 70.1754%

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