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 …

Healthcare workers and nurses in Home HealthCare (HHC) are routed and scheduled to
perform various services at patients' homes. These services often involve a combination of …

The application of optimization techniques to home care service planning has received
increasing attention, as more patients are in need of dedicated care. Currently, the problem …

Home health care (HHC) companies serve as the alternative to hospitals aiming to provide
customers with medical care at home. A crucial challenge for HHC providers is to optimize …

This study addresses the application of the Integer Linear Programming technique for the
patient Appointment Scheduling Problem (ASP). In this research, we propose a Mixed …

Effective appointment scheduling (EAS) is essential for the quality and patient satisfaction in
hospital management. Healthcare schedulers typically refer patients to a suitable period of …

In China, with the acceleration of the population aging, the demand for home health care is
growing rapidly. However, the available caregivers are insufficient to serve all the customers …

At present, home health care services supply is still insufficient and unbalanced in China,
and the elderly nursing manpower is particularly scarce. Therefore, it is important to …

This paper presents a two-stage mathematical formulation for the Home Health Care
Routing-Scheduling Problem (HHCRSP) over a planning horizon of multiple days. To devise …

This paper addresses a variant of home health care routing and scheduling problem with
endogenous time window options for patients. The objective is to minimize the total …