The location of a hospital in a rural region: The case of the Negev

Zilla Sinuany-Stern; Abraham Mehrez; Arad Geva Tal; Binyamin Shemuel

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The location of a hospital in a rural region: The case of the Negev

Zilla Sinuany-Stern, Abraham Mehrez, Arad Geva Tal, Binyamin Shemuel

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This paper reports on the strategic planning of hospital services in the Negev region of Israel, a sparsely populated region experiencing rapid population growth. One of the questions that concerned the decision-makers was whether to increase the medical services in the area by expanding the existing hospital or by building an additional one. The suggestion to build a new hospital raised questions of location. The purpose of this paper is to address this problem. Objective and subjective approaches were employed in a three-stage procedure in order to find the best location. First the problem was analyzed using established location models to generate a set of candidate locations. In the next stages experts evaluated the alternative locations by employing a subjective multicriteria model-the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). Finally, a recommended solution was presented and analyzed in light of the strategic plan.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	255-266
Number of pages	12
Journal	Location Science
Volume	3
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0966-8349(96)00002-2
State	Published - 1 Jan 1995

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AHP
Multicriteria location
hospital location

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Geography, Planning and Development
Transportation

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