A Healthcare Facility Location Selection Problem with Fuzzy TOPSIS Method for a Regional Hospital

As being a significant determination for companies, facility location can be regarded as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Nonetheless, facility location is not significant merely in companies, likewise, facility location decisions in healthcare are significant, as well. Furthermore, since human life is the point in healthcare facilities, facility location decisions in this field are vitally important. As are in other facility location problems, there are multiple criteria to be taken into consideration in health care facility location problems and managers in this area should evaluate alternatives under these criteria. Since this process includes uncertainties, it is suitable to integrate fuzzy logic to this process to obtain more accurate results. In line with this, in this study, a fuzzy approach with multi criteria is presented with regard to the evaluation of healthcare facility location. Within the study, in the framework of specified criteria, a fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) approach is suggested and the proposed approach is performed at a case study for regional hospital location selection in Adana province. The acquired results are expected to be a useful resource to the future decisions in this area for decision makers