Homework Processes

Please write the steps that led you to your answer in detail. Clear and logical justification must be given for either full or partial credit

Q1

Consider a medical clinic consisting of three doctors, two nurses, and one receptionist. The processing time of each person is described in the table below.

Resource	Processing Time (Min./Patient)	Number of Workers
Nurse	10	2
Receptionist	6	1
Doctor	16	3

Answer the following questions:

a. What is the bottleneck?

b. What is the process capacity?

Q2

Consider the following Gantt chart for a vaccine manufacturing process. Assume the process will exhibit the same recurrent pattern in the future. The units of time are minutes.

Answer the following questions:

a. Draw a process flow diagram that is consistent with this Gantt chart. Make sure you indicate which resource(s) is (are) used for each task.

b. What is (are) the bottleneck(s) of the process?

Q3 (Bonus)

Describe and discuss a recent healthcare-related news article: What the news is about? How does it relate to healthcare operations management? Why do you find it interesting?