Intensive care units are important departments in hospitals that are complicated in that they have both urgent and elective patients with a variety of specialty needs. Their design involves important operations strategy decisions, such as whether there are several specialized units for certain...

Introduction: The current COVID-19 pandemic leads to a massive influx of patients to the ICU. Epidemic models focus on the demand for care capacity. Here, we present a model for the number of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients that can be served for a given ICU capacity. The results may give...