Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | |
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| Location | |
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| Place | 8700 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, California, (US) |
| Organization | |
| Care System | Private |
| Hospital Type | Community, Teaching |
| Affiliated University | UCLA, USC, Other |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | Level I trauma center |
| Beds | 809 general, 68 psychiatric |
| History | |
| Founded | 1902 |
| Links | |
| Website | Homepage |
| See also | Hospitals in California |
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a hospital located in Los Angeles, California.
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[edit] History
Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as Founding Life Chairman of the new facility.[citation needed]
Cedars of Lebanon was founded on September 21, 1902 as Kaspare-Cohn Hospital, as tuberculous sanitarium located at 1443 Carrol Street in Los Angeles.[citation needed] Almost immediately, the neighbors of the hospital objected to consumptives living in such close proximity and in 1904 the city passed an ordinance prohibiting the hospital from treating them.[citation needed] The hospital changed its focus, now providing for the needs of its non-tubercular patients.[citation needed] From 1906 to 1910, Dr. Sarah Vasen, the first woman doctor in Los Angeles acted as superintendent.[1]
In 1910, it moved to Whittier Boulevard and then in 1930 to 4833 Fountain Avenue, where it was renamed Cedars of Lebanon after the religiously significant Lebanon Cedar, used to build King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem in the Bible. Foreshadowing Cedars-Sinai as "the hospital of the stars," Lebanon had a roster of famous patients including Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and many others over the years.[citation needed] Benjamin Feingold was on the Pediatrics staff.[citation needed] Myron Prinzmetal worked there.[citation needed] Jesse Leonard Steinfeld did an internship there.[citation needed]
Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables was started by the Bikur Cholim Society in 1918, as a two-room hospice.[citation needed] It was renamed Bikur Cholim Hospital in 1921 after relocating to a Boyle Heights residence.[citation needed] Its name then changed to Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables in 1923, and moved in 1926 to a larger facility on Bonnie Beach Place.[citation needed] Its namesake was the Biblical Mount Sinai where Moses was said to have received the Ten Commandments. The current Beverly Boulevard site was purchased by Emma and Hyman Levine and donated to the hospital.[citation needed] The new building opened in 1955.[citation needed] Donations from the Max Factor Family Foundation allowed the construction of the current main hospital building, which opened on November 5, 1972.[2]
[edit] Current status
Cedars-Sinai is the largest private hospital in California and the western United States with over 9,000 employees, more than 2,000 physicians, and 900 beds.[citation needed] In 2001, there were 77,347 visits to the emergency room.[3] In fiscal year 2003, Cedars-Sinai served 46,854 inpatients and 194,172 outpatients.[4]. It ranks in the top twenty of free-standing hospitals with regard to grant funding with sixty awards totaling $20,574,450 from the NIH.[citation needed] In 2007, Cedars-Sinai was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the 17th-best hospital out of 5,462 medical centers in the United States.[5] It received high rankings in ten of the sixteen specialties, ranking in the top 10 for digestive disorders and in the top 25 for eight other specialties as listed below.[6]:
| Specialty | Ranking |
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| Digestive Disorders | 8 |
| Heart | 14 |
| Endocrinology | 15 |
| Neurology and Neurosurgery | 16 |
| Respiratory Disorders | 23 |
| Geriatrics | 23 |
| Gynecology | 23 |
| Kidney Disease | 23 |
| Orthopedics | 25 |
| Urology | 39 |
Cedars-Sinai lists many celebrities as patients in its history. Lucille Ball, Groucho Marx, Johnny Carson,Frank Sinatra, Madonna, Julia Roberts, Gwen Stefani, among many others, have received treatment there over the years.[citation needed]
[edit] Employees, staff and officers
Cedars-Sinai is run by a Board of Directors having as many as 42 members.[citation needed] The members elect a chair, who directs the Chief Executive Officer.[citation needed] Current and former Board members include Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, John Mack, and Sherry Lansing.[citation needed]
Many employees are represented by Service Employees International Union.[citation needed] Registered nurses voted to be represented by the California Nurses Association in 2002, but have been engaged in a dispute with the hospital Board of Directors over recognition of the nurses' unionization vote.[citation needed]
The hospital's workforce has a very diverse ethnic composition, with a majority of the registered nurses of Filipino or other Asian descent.[citation needed]
[edit] Famous doctors
Jeremy Swan co-invented the pulmonary artery catheter together with Willie Ganz while at Cedars.[1] David Ho was a resident there when he encountered some of the first cases of what was later labelled AIDS.[2]
Dr. Keith Black is a world famous neurosurgeon, who is best known for operating on inoperable brain tumors.
Dr. Steven Shapiro and Dr. Leo Gordon have received renown for treatment of gastro-intenstinal disorders. Cedars-Sinai ranks #8 in hospitals in the United States for gastroenterology.
[edit] References
- ^ Beardsley, Julie (April, 2003). Dr. Sarah Vasen: First Jewish Woman Doctor In Los Angeles; First Superintendent Of Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Retrieved on 2008-02-21.
- ^ Historical Perspective (PDF). Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (July, 2003). Retrieved on 2008-02-21.
- ^ Aushenker, Michael (2002-10-04). Did You Know...?. The Jewish Journal. Retrieved on 2008-02-21.
- ^ Our Report To Our Community, 2003 (PDF). Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2003). Retrieved on 2008-02-21.
- ^ "America's Best Hospitals", U.S. News & World Report, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-18.
- ^ "America's Best Hospitals", U.S. News & World Report, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-18.
