Transport with the bed OR Process on a gurney ?

[patrickABAWF]

[ FlexSim HC 5.1.0 ]

I have patients brought to a treatment room where they then lie on a bed, receive treatment and are transferred to a "waking" area on that same bed and left there for a while.

An empty bed is rolled into the treatment room before the next patient arrives.

I can't seem to do this but I see 2 options. Which one is possible?

1 - Use a bed for the process and then move the bed to the other area. Can I do that? I don't seem to be able to move the bed.

2 - Use a gurney and do the process on the gurney and then move it to the other area.

Right now I us both and transfer the patient from the bed to the gurney but that is not really what happens.

Any ideas ?

Thanks a lot,

Patrick

[Matthew_Gillespie · Accepted solution]

You can have the patient stay on a gurney the whole time and just have the staff move the gurney to a spot on the floor. You still need to put Patient Processing objects in these spots, but if you set their shape to <none> and Keep the gurney in the Transport activity the gurney will be places on top of the Patient Processing object.

Here is an example model that shows it working.

[patrickABAWF]

That's great. But I can't replicate that in my model. The patient just stands beside the gurney and is transported standing up. Just spent 2 hours trying to find out why. Any ideas what it could be?

[Matthew_Gillespie]

Attach your model and I'll take a look at it. You can start a new private question if the model is sensitive.

[patrickABAWF]

I'm on vacation this week so I'll get back to this next Monday. Thanks.