See how strongly a physical therapy schedule loads its treatment rooms. Enter the number of rooms, open hours, scheduled visits, and average room time. The result separates occupied room-hours from available room-hours and shows unused capacity or overload in visit equivalents. Use it to test scheduling changes without assuming that every therapist minute requires a private room.
Utilization = visits × room minutes ÷ 60 ÷ (rooms × hours per day × days) × 100
Utilization measures scheduled room occupancy, not clinical quality or therapist utilization. A value over 100% signals that the entered schedule cannot fit without overlap, extended hours, or different room assumptions.
Do not count gym-floor visits as private-room use unless they genuinely block one of the rooms in the input.
Six rooms open 9 hours on 5 days provide 270 room-hours. If 360 visits each occupy a room for 40 minutes, they use 240 room-hours. Utilization is 88.9%, leaving 30 room-hours, equivalent to 45 more visits at the same duration.
Include turnover time when the room cannot be used for another patient during that interval.
Only count them if they occupy one of the rooms included in the room total.
The entered visits and duration exceed the available room schedule, so at least one assumption must change.
No. A therapist may treat without a private room, and a room may remain occupied during work performed by another role.
Yes. Set operating days to 1 and enter that day’s visits and room schedule.
| Item | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Measure | Definition |
| Available room-hours | Rooms × hours/day × days/week |
| Occupied room-hours | Visits × room minutes ÷ 60 |
| Utilization | Occupied ÷ available |
| Visit capacity | Available minutes ÷ minutes per visit |