The Dahlia Medical Center has 28 labor rooms, 15 combination labor and delivery

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The Dahlia Medical Center has 28 labor rooms, 15 combination labor and delivery rooms, and 3 delivery rooms. All of these facilities operate around the clock. Time spent in labor rooms varies from hours to days, with an average of about a day. The average uncomplicated delivery requires about one hour in the delivery room. The average time in a combination labor-delivery room is about 24 hours. During an exceptionally busy three-day period, 102 healthy babies were born at Dahlia Medical Center. 70 babies were born in separate labor and delivery rooms and 32 were born in combined labor and delivery rooms. Which of the facilities (labor rooms, combination labor and delivery rooms, or delivery rooms) had the greatest utilization rate? The had the highest utilization rate of %. (Enter your response as a percent rounded to two decimal places.) labor rooms combination labor and delivery rooms delivery rooms

Explanation / Answer

Labor room capacity=28 room x 3 days x 24 hours/day= 2016

Labor room Utilization=((70 babiesx24hours/baby)/(2016hours)) *100 = 83.33%

Combination labor-delivery room capacity=15 rooms x 3 daysx 24 hours/day = 1080

Combination labor-delivery room Utilization =( (32 babies x 24 hours/day )/1080) *100 = 71.11%

Delivery room capacity=3 rooms x 3 days x 24 hours/day = 216

Delivery room Utilization =((60 babies x 1 hour/baby)/216) *100 = 27.77%

hence, the labor delivery rooms have the highest Utilization rate of 83.33%

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