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ProModel is a leading provider of simulation-based, decision making tools and techniques for improving performance throughout the enterprise.

Whether you’re planning a product portfolio, optimizing a supply-chain, or implementing lean/six sigma, ProModel's predictive technology and expert consulting services will improve your bottom line.

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Featured Customer Project

Capacity Planning of an Outpatient Clinic
Using Simulation

Situation
An outpatient clinic at an academic medical center offers comprehensive evaluations/consultations to patients undergoing an anesthesia-related, low to medium risk, planned surgery/procedure. Implementation of surgical process improvement initiatives across various surgical specialties led to an increase in demand for the clinic services. The administration believed insufficient consultation rooms would hinder their ability to expand services.

Results
The simulation model results indicated that there were a sufficient number of rooms at the outpatient clinic to meet the increase in demand. However, imbalance in patient scheduling across the day was causing a bottleneck in the system. By redistributing the workload more evenly across the day, the patient throughput in the clinic could be increased by 30 additional appointments.

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Featured ProModel News and Activities

Lean Nation TV Broadcast
Watch this broadcast to learn why and how simulation is being used in Healthcare, Manufacturing and other industries to accelerate results from Lean and Six Sigma Initiatives. This informative video from our recent appearance on Lean Nation TV, is hosted in an entertaining and humorous style by Lean Advocate and President of VIBCO, Inc., Karl Wadensten. His guests are Senior ProModel consultants Dave Tucker and Bruce Gladwin, both Six Sigma Black Belts as well as certified Lean practitioners.

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Northwest Community Hospital (NCH) Patient Transfer Project.
NCH in Arlington Heights, IL recently used simulation to help model their patient transfer plans for moving into a new facility. In this video the team members at NCH discuss how simulation helped them ensure maximum patient safety during this important transition.

Patient Flow Simulation
Improving Patient Flow seems to be a topic on the mind of many Healthcare executives and decision-makers these days. ProModel has developed a Patient Flow Simulation Framework which is being used to help analyze strategic patient flow issues and plans.
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We invite you to share your thoughts on patient flow issues and solutions in your organizations with your peers on our Linked–In Healthcare Community page. Please click here to contribute to this dialogue or to join the community if you have not already done so. We look forward to your reading about your experiences