Technical Note for Discrete-Time Diffusion Approximations Motivated from Hospital Inpatient Flow Management

Abstract: This note details the development of a discrete-time diffusion process to approximate the midnight customer count process in a $M_\textrm{per}/\textrm{Geo}_\textrm{2timeScale}/N$ system. We prove a limit theorem that supports this diffusion approximation, and discuss two methods to compute the stationary distribution of this discrete-time diffusion process.