37. Facilities Planning at CBS to meet collection targets in the 2030’s
Invited abstract in session TD-1: Blood and sepsis, stream Sessions.
Tuesday, 15:30-17:00Room: NTNU, Realfagbygget R5
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | John Blake
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| Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University |
Abstract
After COVID-19 donor behavior in Canada shifted—fewer individuals became donors, and existing donors lapsed more often. This, coupled with converting whole blood centers to plasma donation centers and higher demand for packed red cells, led to lower inventory levels.
Analysis shows donor participation declines with distance from collection sites. To meet collection targets, more collection opportunities (fixed or mobile) are needed. However, adding new centers alters the Canadian Blood Services (CBS) network structure. To address this, a network optimization model was developed to:
1) Identify the number and types of facilities to be operated (and over what time frame) by CBS.
2) Assign geographic regions of donors (FSAs) to collection sites.
3) Set annual targets for collection sites.
4) Develop a minimum cost assignment of transportation links between collection and production sites.
5) Determine an annual production plan for production sites.
6) Make a minimum cost assignment of products at distribution sites to demand sites to minimize transportation costs.
In this talk we discuss the develpment of the model, describe the interesting process of validating it, and provide preliminary results.
Keywords
- Integrated planning of health services
- Strategic and operational planning
- Capacity and network planning
Status: accepted
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