How to transfer patients from a location to another?

[sara_s2]

[ FlexSim 19.0.0 ]

Hello,

I want to transfer patients from a location to another location in my process flow, but I can't find any "people activity sets" that allows doing that. Noting that I can’t use “transport then process” activity because I want to transfer (from the whole patients set) only patients that exist in location 1 to location 3. Patients that are in location 2 will not be transferred. I would like to mention that I am working on FlexSim 19.0.0

Would anybody gives me an idea about what I should do, Please.

Regards.

[braydn_t]

@sara S2

It would be best if you could give us a sample model so we could get a better idea of what you are working with. Could you upload one here so we can help you better?
Thanks!

[sara_s2]

Hi @Braydn T, thank you for the reply.

I want that the two nurses transport the 3 patients in location1 to the free beds in location2 after they finish their processing (in 20 minutes). I can't use "transport then process" activity because nurses transport patients that are already in location 2 to the free beds.

I would be grateful if you help me. Please find the model below.

hospital1.fsm

[tanner_p]

Hi @sara S2,

You need to break out your location 1 and location 3 to be their own groups and then keep the flows consistent. What I mean is that if there is a difference in what happens to patients in location 1 and location 2, you need to have them follow unique Process Flows. I've updated your model to use logic that starts patients in location 1 and then takes them to a free bed in location 2.

If you want the patients in location 3 to do something different from location 1, then you need to specify unique flows for the patients in each of those locations. Hopefully this helps.

patient-flows-help.fsm

[Matthew_Gillespie · Accepted solution]

Your issue isn't that you can't use the Transport then Process activity set. The issue is that you only want some of your patients to be transported and not the other ones. So you should use that activity set, but put a decide activity before it so you can filter out the patients who need to be transported:

See the attached model: decide.fsm

[sara_s2]

Thank you @Matthew Gillespie, this works well.

[sara_s2]

Okay, thank you @tanner.p for your help.