Hospital production possibility curve

This hospital production possibility curve illustrates a daily capacity choice. Outpatient visits and surgeries both use clinicians, rooms, nursing support and diagnostic services. The frontier marks schedules that use those resources fully. Northside Hospital's planned schedule sits on the curve, so increasing surgeries would require reducing appointments unless capacity changes. The staffing-gap point is inside the curve and highlights output lost because available facilities are not fully staffed. This is a useful planning view for discussing trade-offs before setting clinics and operating-room blocks. It gives teams a concrete starting point for reviewing assumptions, data quality and next steps together.