Westfriesgasthuis is a modern, mid-size hospital in the Netherlands, with a long history of high patient satisfaction level and a continuous drive for excellence.
Care Dynamics implemented its Tactical Planning methodology at the hospital, initially focussing on the largest disciplines of Surgery and Orthopaedics. In the process, Westfriesgasthuis instituted a new entity in its management structure, the Tactical Planning Executive-committee, and empowered it to coordinate and manage its patient logistics in the tactical horizon (up to 2 months). Westfriesgasthuis further deployed DynamicPlannerTM ,Care Dynamics' advanced decision support and optimisation environment, to support the Committee's activities and help optimise the plan.
Care Dynamics takes particular pride in the results achieved by Westfriesgasthuis to-date - the highlight of which is a 10% reduction in the number of clinical beds across the facility. This is possible due to the hospital's new capability to plan patient logistics, and hence significantly reduce the variability in bed utilisation, while optimising simultaneously overall performance of the critical logistics segment in the operating complex and clinical beds.
