A Patient at Heller Memorial Hospital, Lisa Ford, Was a Patient

question 27

Multiple Choice

A patient at Heller Memorial Hospital, Lisa Ford, was a patient in the emergency department in 1998 and has had outpatient lab work in 2003 and 2005; she was then married. Her name changed to Lisa Ford Haver, and she had her twins at Heller County Memorial Hospital in 2010. How many times will her name and demographic information appear in the hospital's MPI?

• A) once
• B) twice
• C) four times
• D) five times

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Definitions:

Makespan

The total amount of time required to complete a set of tasks or jobs from start to finish.

Idle Time

Periods when resources, such as machinery or labor, are available but not in use due to lack of work, setup, or maintenance.

Dispatching Rule

A guideline or algorithm used in scheduling to determine the sequence in which work orders should be processed in a manufacturing or service system.

Flow Time

The total time a product or a piece of work requires to move through a production process, from start to finish.