In recent decades， healthcare service has been improved world widely since people have paid close attention to it． Healthcare operations management， which applies operations methods and techniques to solve health delivery problems， has played an important role in the development of healthcare service． This survey reviews most of significant research works on healthcare operations management． It investigates papers in OR/MS top journals (Management Science， Operations Research，Manufacturing＆Service Operations Management，etc) or papers with great contribution in each specified category， and provided potential research prospects directions in the future．