Table 2.

Simulation of the Proposed Changes Increasing the Bed Capacity From 23 to 25 or to 28 Beds Using the Simul8 (SIMUL8 Corp) Model (Scenario A)

No. of Beds	23	25	28
Average number entering system	2,650.46	2,650.46	2,650.46
Average bed utilization, %	84.74	78.72	70.43
Percentage of time above 75% capacity, %	72.50	58.45	35.27
Percentage of time at 100% capacity, %	23.44	9.09	1.31

Simulation model was built from detailed patient flow description and data available for the two critical care units between 2016 and 2018. Model results are an average obtained over 30 independent random trials of our model, where each trial uses a different initial random seed to sample from the defined distributions.