An urgent health care employs one physician, one nurse practitioner, two physician assistant, one X-ray technician and one medical assistant. The types of minor medical emergencies and health issues they provide are classified by age category as follow; above 50 years old (14 per week), from 18 -49 years old (10 per week), and from 6 – 17 years old (8 per week). The times, in hours, required them for each age category to complete all type of procedure are shown below. Based on their patients age the time spent with patients to provide a medical care, the physician, the nurse practitioner, the physician assistant 1, the physician assistant 2, and the X-ray technician, can handle are 10,12, 8,8, and 6 procedure per week, respectively above 50 years old 18 – 49-year-old 6 – 17 years old Physician 60 70 60 Nurse Practitioner 50 100 90 Physical Assistant 40 110 80 Physical Assistant 70 90 110 X-ray Technician 80 20 70 Formulate a LP model and determine the optimal total number of hours that will be assigned to each age category each week? (Hint: Try a Network Optimizations Model from which we cover in class).
[Answered]: An urgent health care employs one physician, one…
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