City Surgical Center specializes in outpatient surgery. Typically, each patient requires 12 minutes for admitting and completing

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City Surgical Center specializes in outpatient surgery. Typically, each patient requires 12 minutes for admitting and completing insurance documentation, 19 minutes of surgical preparation, 25 minutes of surgery, and two hours of recovery time. During recovery, nurses continually monitor a patient's status by checking vital signs such as blood pressure and temperature. Typically, a 35 -minute wait occurs between the admitting process and the surgical preparation process. Calculate the total cycle time for a typical patient at City Surgical Center. How much of the total cycle time would be considered processing time? Explain.

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