Healthcare facility (HCF) location has attracted considerable attention from the operations
research community over nearly four decades as one of the most important strategic issues …

One of the most important health care services is emergency medical service as it plays a
vital role in saving people's lives and reducing the rate of mortality and morbidity. Over the …

Over the past 10 years, a considerable amount of research has been devoted to the
development of models to support decision making in the particular yet important context of …

In this study, we develop a flexible optimization framework for real-time ambulance
dispatching and relocation. In addition to ambulance redeployment, we consider a general …

Abstract Emergency Medical Services (EMS) managers are concerned with providing
maximum possible coverage in their service area. As emergency calls arrive into the EMS …

Abstract The pre-hospital Emergency Medical Service (EMS) provides the critical care to the
ill or injured patients, and evaluates and manages those patients at scene before their …

Among the wide range of medical services, prehospital health care is one of the most
relevant, as it usually involves an emergency situation. The qualified medical team is …

In this paper, an analytic review of the recent methodologies tackling the problem of dynamic
allocation of ambulances was carried out. Considering that state-of-the-art is moving to deal …

In this chapter, we discuss facility location problems arising in the context of healthcare. We
concentrate on three main areas. The most classical one is healthcare facility location which …

Selecting the best solution to deploy an ambulance in a strategic location is of the important
variables that need to be accounted for improving the emergency medical services. The …