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Redistribution of Doctors and Decentralization of Clinics Improved Utilization of Services, Demand, and Capacity of Hamad Medical Corporation’s Staff Clinic

Background: The Staff Medical Clinic (SMC) of the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) serves the staff members who require healthcare services, but in a crowded environment, the SMC can only meet 75% of that demand. Overcrowding reduces productivity and service quality and increases waiting time. Furthe...

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Autores principales: Habas, Elmukhtar, Al Halabi, Anas M, Saleem, Maliha S, Ghazouani, Hafedh, Hommos, Ahmed A, Borham, Abdelsalam M, Abou-Samra, Abdul-Badi
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Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9278801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35844307
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25883
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author Habas, Elmukhtar
Al Halabi, Anas M
Saleem, Maliha S
Ghazouani, Hafedh
Hommos, Ahmed A
Borham, Abdelsalam M
Abou-Samra, Abdul-Badi
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Al Halabi, Anas M
Saleem, Maliha S
Ghazouani, Hafedh
Hommos, Ahmed A
Borham, Abdelsalam M
Abou-Samra, Abdul-Badi
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description Background: The Staff Medical Clinic (SMC) of the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) serves the staff members who require healthcare services, but in a crowded environment, the SMC can only meet 75% of that demand. Overcrowding reduces productivity and service quality and increases waiting time. Furthermore, overcrowding in healthcare facilities decreases the experience and satisfaction of patients and healthcare providers. Aim: The main objective of this study was to use simulation modeling to evaluate interventions that could improve SMC waiting time and efficiency. Method: Eighteen months of data on SMC patient flow, staffing, and clinical sessions were collected (January 2018 to June 2019). The patient's journey through the SMC was modeled as a series of processes with assigned durations defined mathematically using the appropriate probability distribution. A simulation flow model was developed considering the locations of the staff and nearby main hospital facilities. An intervention was proposed and evaluated through a simulation. The intervention involved redistributing 25% of the SMC staff into three main satellite clinics located at the facilities where most of the SMC patients came.  Results: The proposed intervention decreased crowding by 37%, reduced staffing requirements by 28%, and increased the number of patient slots by 22%, resulting in a net increase in the number of patients served by an average of 1250 monthly, without the need for hiring new additional staffing. Conclusion: Redistribution of the available medical staff to three new satellite clinics reduces workload pressure at all sites and increases clinic capacity without additional costs.
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spelling pubmed-92788012022-07-14 Redistribution of Doctors and Decentralization of Clinics Improved Utilization of Services, Demand, and Capacity of Hamad Medical Corporation’s Staff Clinic Habas, Elmukhtar Al Halabi, Anas M Saleem, Maliha S Ghazouani, Hafedh Hommos, Ahmed A Borham, Abdelsalam M Abou-Samra, Abdul-Badi Cureus Quality Improvement Background: The Staff Medical Clinic (SMC) of the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) serves the staff members who require healthcare services, but in a crowded environment, the SMC can only meet 75% of that demand. Overcrowding reduces productivity and service quality and increases waiting time. Furthermore, overcrowding in healthcare facilities decreases the experience and satisfaction of patients and healthcare providers. Aim: The main objective of this study was to use simulation modeling to evaluate interventions that could improve SMC waiting time and efficiency. Method: Eighteen months of data on SMC patient flow, staffing, and clinical sessions were collected (January 2018 to June 2019). The patient's journey through the SMC was modeled as a series of processes with assigned durations defined mathematically using the appropriate probability distribution. A simulation flow model was developed considering the locations of the staff and nearby main hospital facilities. An intervention was proposed and evaluated through a simulation. The intervention involved redistributing 25% of the SMC staff into three main satellite clinics located at the facilities where most of the SMC patients came.  Results: The proposed intervention decreased crowding by 37%, reduced staffing requirements by 28%, and increased the number of patient slots by 22%, resulting in a net increase in the number of patients served by an average of 1250 monthly, without the need for hiring new additional staffing. Conclusion: Redistribution of the available medical staff to three new satellite clinics reduces workload pressure at all sites and increases clinic capacity without additional costs. Cureus 2022-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9278801/ /pubmed/35844307 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25883 Text en Copyright © 2022, Habas et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Quality Improvement
Habas, Elmukhtar
Al Halabi, Anas M
Saleem, Maliha S
Ghazouani, Hafedh
Hommos, Ahmed A
Borham, Abdelsalam M
Abou-Samra, Abdul-Badi
Redistribution of Doctors and Decentralization of Clinics Improved Utilization of Services, Demand, and Capacity of Hamad Medical Corporation’s Staff Clinic
title Redistribution of Doctors and Decentralization of Clinics Improved Utilization of Services, Demand, and Capacity of Hamad Medical Corporation’s Staff Clinic
title_full Redistribution of Doctors and Decentralization of Clinics Improved Utilization of Services, Demand, and Capacity of Hamad Medical Corporation’s Staff Clinic
title_fullStr Redistribution of Doctors and Decentralization of Clinics Improved Utilization of Services, Demand, and Capacity of Hamad Medical Corporation’s Staff Clinic
title_full_unstemmed Redistribution of Doctors and Decentralization of Clinics Improved Utilization of Services, Demand, and Capacity of Hamad Medical Corporation’s Staff Clinic
title_short Redistribution of Doctors and Decentralization of Clinics Improved Utilization of Services, Demand, and Capacity of Hamad Medical Corporation’s Staff Clinic
title_sort redistribution of doctors and decentralization of clinics improved utilization of services, demand, and capacity of hamad medical corporation’s staff clinic
topic Quality Improvement
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9278801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35844307
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25883
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