When a patient enters the Valley Health Clinical Laboratory to have his blood drawn and a Chemistry Panel and CBC run, he spends, on average 2 minutes at patient check-in, 45 minutes in the waiting area, 5 minutes having his medical history updated, and 8 minutes having his blood taken.  If the clinical laboratory has 3 full-time Lab Techs, operates 8 hours per day and demand is 75 patients per day, what is the takt time? Assume that the med techs take a 30 minute lunch. Please enter your response using this format: ## minutes

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When a patient enters the Valley Health Clinical Laboratory to have his blood drawn and a Chemistry Panel and CBC run, he spends, on average 2 minutes at patient check-in, 45 minutes in the waiting area, 5 minutes having his medical history updated, and 8 minutes having his blood taken. 

If the clinical laboratory has 3 full-time Lab Techs, operates 8 hours per day and demand is 75 patients per day, what is the takt time? Assume that the med techs take a 30 minute lunch.

Please enter your response using this format: ## minutes

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