Home Health Care staff scheduling: Effective grouping approaches

M. Mutingi

Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

C. Mbohwa

Department of Quality and Operations Management, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

ABSTRACT: Home Health Care (HHC) services provide health care and assistance to patients at their homes according to their specific health needs. In the HHC setting, healthcare staff scheduling is a hard combinatorial problem that is concerned with the allocation of care tasks to healthcare givers at a minimal cost while considering healthcare service quality by striving to meet the time window restrictions specified by the patients. This chapter proposes ...

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