home health care

Solving the Home Service Assignment, Routing, and Appointment Scheduling (H-SARA) problem with Uncertainties

  • Syu-Ning Johnn
  • Yiran Zhu
  • AndrĂ©s Miniguano-Trujillo
  • Akshay Gupte
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Linear Programming, Stochastic Programming, Transportation Tags , , , ,

    The Home Service Assignment, Routing, and Appointment scheduling (H-SARA) problem integrates the strategical fleet-sizing, tactical assignment, operational vehicle routing and scheduling subproblems at different decision levels, with a single period planning horizon and uncertainty (stochasticity) from the service duration, travel time, and customer cancellation rate. We propose a two-stage stochastic mixed-integer linear programming model for … Read more

    Dynamic Scheduling of Home Health Care Patients to Medical Providers

  • Andre Augusto Cire
  • Adam Diamant
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Stochastic Programming Tags , , , ,

    Home care provides personalized medical care and social support to patients within their own home. Our work proposes a dynamic scheduling framework to assist in the assignment of patients to health practitioners (HPs) at a single home care agency. We model the decision of which patients to assign to HPs as a discrete-time Markov decision … Read more