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Description of Process – Process Design
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The Shouldice Hospital Limited Case 1 Below, we will discuss various issues involved with Shouldice Hospital Limited. These items include: the process design - operational and medical, analysis of the model, whether the process is good or bad, if changes need to be made and if these changes would be good or bad for Shouldice. Description of Process - Process Design Shouldice Hospital works like a flow shop that uses a combination of line flow and batch processes, with a majority completed as a line flows. The employees of the hospital move from patient to patient to get them examined and admitted while working in stages to get them prepared for surgery. The main batch process is the group orientation to discuss the procedure before the meal times. This hospital only operates on external types of abdominal hernias. Because there is a specific technique to operate on patients, the performed procedures are...
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