The model is a useful and user-friendly decision making tool for planning a mass vaccination clinic. The model helps the
decision maker determine the required number and length of vaccination and consent form lanes, staff needed at the consent
handout stations and vaccination stations, and the average user waiting time in the system. Drive-through clinics have proven
to be more promising because of the much higher throughput allowed by these clinics. This was observed during the
H1N1 flu clinic organized by the Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness Department. The walk through clinic and
drive-through clinics were organized in the Papa John’s stadium. The maximum rates for the drive-through and walkthrough
clinics were 762 and 424 persons/hour respectively and after the 2 day event, 19,079 vaccines were administered
with 12,613 administered via a ten-lane drive-through. Compared to walk-in clinics, drive-through clinics also minimize the
spread of the virus and offer the convenience of waiting inside a vehicle. The feature that makes the model unique is that it
can be customized and used for communities of any size which may or may not have prior knowledge of simulation modeling.
Because the main users of this model will be the public health departments who have the responsibility for organizing
these clinics, ease of use is one of the most important aspects of a model.
An extension of this work can be the integration of this model with a layout design tool. Once the user identifies the settings
for a clinic, a layout design tool can propose different layout options to choose from and the user can select the option
that best fits the available space.