In home health care (HHC) operations, nurses are scheduled and routed to perform various
services at clients' homes. As this often requires a combination of vehicle routing and …

This paper offers a summary of the latest studies on healthcare scheduling problems
including patients' admission scheduling problem, nurse scheduling problem, operation …

Abstract Home Health Care (HHC) agencies aim at providing care and/or services to
patients, at their homes, ensuring a quality of service at least equivalent to that given in a …

The home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP) consists of designing a
set of routes used by care workers to provide care to patients who live in the same …

The efficient deployment of resources in home-based care is considered crucial for the
sustainability of health and social care systems worldwide. The aim of this study was to …

Inspiring by real-world assumptions, this paper aims to present a robust optimization model
for a home health care routing-scheduling problem with uncertain service and travel times …

Due to the ageing population and the prevalence of chronic diseases, Home Health Care
(HHC) practices are significantly increasing in developed countries to provide coordinated …

Home Care (HC) providers are complex organizations that manage a large number of
patients, different categories of operators, support staff and material resources in a context …

The monthly nurse rostering is one of the most time consuming planning tasks of our project
partner, a leading German home care provider. The planning is currently done manually by …

Workforce planning for home healthcare represents an important and challenging task
involving complex factors associated with labor regulations, caregivers' preferences, and …