Introduction to Management Science 12th Edition by Bernard Taylor

Exercise 70

Federated Health Care has contracted to be Tech's primary health care provider for faculty and staff. There are three major hospitals in the area (within 35 miles)-County, Memorial, and General-that have full-service emergency rooms. Federated wants to designate one of the hospitals as its primary care emergency room for its members. The company's criteria for selection are quality of medical care, as determined by a patient survey; distance to the emergency room by the majority of its members; speed of medical attention at the emergency room; and cost. Following are the pairwise comparisons of the emergency rooms for each of the four criteria and the pairwise comparisons for the criteria:




Using AHP, determine which hospital emergency room Federated Health Care should designate as its primary care provider.