HOSPITAL LOCATION SELECTION WITH ARAS-G

Abstract

The facility location selection is one of the most important decisions for investors and entrepreneurs. It is a strategic issue besides often decides the fate of such a facility. In this kind of strategic decisions, decision makers should take into account various objectives and criteria and the process of location selection is inherently complicated. Hospital location selection problem is an important issue in terms of location selection problem. Hospital location selection plays a vital role in the hospital construction and management. From aspect of the government, appropriate hospital location selection will help optimize the allocation of medical resources, matching the provision of health care with the social and economic demands, coordinating the urban and rural health service development, and easing social contradictions. From aspect of the citizen, proper hospital location selection will improve access to the health care, reduce the time of rescue, satisfy people’s medical needs as well as enhance the quality of life. From the aspect of the investors and operators of the hospital, optimum hospital location selection will definitely be cost saving on capital strategy. This paper considers the hospital location selection for a new public hospital by using an additive ratio assessment method with gray values (ARAS-G). Analysis of the locations by ARAS-G method allows determining value of locations' in compared with the optimal location. As a result, the closest location to the optimal location was selected using this method.

Keywords

• Location selection,multi criteria decision making,additive ratio assessment method,grey

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