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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
8700 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
CA Tel. 310-423-3277
Toll Free 800-233-2771

Type: Private - Not-for-Profit
On the web: http://www.csmc.edu

Many a star has been born, literally, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The 950-bed teaching and research hospital is located right where Los Angeles meets Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, and has tended to the medical needs of a number of celebrities since its inception in 1902. However, the center is also a major teaching hospital for UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and is engaged in some 600 research programs, in areas such as cancer, neuroscience, and genetics. Its Cedars-Sinai Medical Group is a multi-specialty physicians group consisting of about 90 doctors; the medical center is also affiliated with an Independent Physician Association with roughly 500 primary care and specialist doctors.

Officers:
President and CEO: Thomas M. (Tom) Priselac
SVP, Clinical Care Services and COO: Mark R. Gavens
SVP, Finance and CFO: Edward M. Prunchunas

Competitors:
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
Pasadena Hospital Association
Tenet Healthcare

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
View of North and South Towers
Geography
Location 8700 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, California, United States
Organization
Care system Not for Profit
Hospital type Academic Medical Center
Affiliated university UCLA, USC, Other
Services
Emergency department Level I trauma center
Beds 958 Beds
History
Founded 1902
Links
Website home page
Lists Hospitals in California
Entrance to old Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, 1956

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a hospital located in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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History

From 1906 to 1910, Dr. Sarah Vasen, the first woman doctor in Los Angeles acted as superintendent of what was then the Kaspare Cohn Hospital.[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. Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Hospitals merged in 1961 to form Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.[2]

Donations from the Max Factor Family Foundation allowed the construction of the current main hospital building, which opened on November 5, 1972.[3]

In 2006 the Medical Center added the Sapperstein Critical Care Tower with 150 ICU beds.



In fiscal year 2008, Cedars-Sinai served 54,947 inpatients and 350,405 outpatients, and there were 77,964 visits to the emergency room.[4] Cedars-Sinai received high rankings in eleven of the sixteen specialties, ranking in the top 10 for digestive disorders and in the top 25 for five other specialties as listed below.[5]:

Specialty Ranking
Digestive Disorders 10
Heart 15
Endocrinology 19
Neurology and Neurosurgery 15
Respiratory Disorders 29
Geriatrics 33
Gynecology 23
Kidney Disease 20
Orthopedics 26
Urology 38


For more than 20 years, Los Angeles area residents have named Cedars-Sinai the "Most Preferred Hospital for All Health Needs" in [6]:

Famous doctors

Jeremy Swan co-invented the pulmonary artery catheter together with Willie Ganz while at Cedars.[7]

David Ho (scientist) was a resident there when he encountered some of the first cases of what was later labelled AIDS.[8]

Controversy

According to articles in the Los Angeles Times , Cedars-Sinai is under investigation for significant radiation overdoses of 260 patients during CT brain scans during an 18-month period.

"In recent years, Cedars-Sinai has been the site of other high-profile problems. In November 2007, the newborn twins of actor Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, twice were given 1,000 times the intended dosage of the blood thinner heparin, endangering their lives. State regulators later fined the hospital $25,000 for safety lapses involving the Quaid twins and another child. The Quaids sued the hospital, settling the case for $750,000. In June, a former Cedars-Sinai employee was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing patient information to defraud insurance firms. Personal information from more than 1,000 patients was found during a search of the man's home.[9]

References

  1. ^ Beardsley, Julie (April, 2003). "Dr. Sarah Vasen: First Jewish Woman Doctor In Los Angeles; First Superintendent Of Cedars-Sinai Hospital". http://home.earthlink.net/~nholdeneditor/Sarah%20Vasen.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-21. 
  2. ^ Cedars of Lebanon hospital
  3. ^ "Historical Perspective" (PDF). Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. July, 2003. http://www.csmc.edu/pdf/HistPersp703.pdf. Retrieved 2008-02-21. 
  4. ^ "Our Report To Our Community, 2008" (PDF). Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 2008. http://www.csmc.edu/pdf/2008AnnualReport-97522.pdf. Retrieved 2009-10-26. 
  5. ^ "America's Best Hospitals". U.S. News & World Report. 2009. http://health.usnews.com/health/best-hospitals/cedars-sinai-medical-center-6930444. Retrieved 2009-10-26. 
  6. ^ "2009/2010 Consumer Choice Winners". National Research Corporation. 2009. http://hcmg.nationalresearch.com/Default.aspx?DN=11428,7,1,Documents. Retrieved 2009-10-26. 
  7. ^ http://googlewwwp1.csmc.edu:7800/search?q=cache:1kBmTvqBaRgJ:www.csmc.edu/pdf/CardiologySwanGanzAwards.pdf+swan+ganz&access=p&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&site=default_collection&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&oe=UTF-8
  8. ^ http://googlewwwp1.csmc.edu:7800/search?q=cache:lCXhkpYAoSAJ:www.csmc.edu/pdf/CSPR-GraduationAdvisoryPDF.PDF+david+ho&access=p&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&site=default_collection&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&oe=UTF-8
  9. ^ Cedars-Sinai investigated for significant radiation overdoses of 206 patients, Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times, October 10, 2009; “4 patients say Cedars-Sinai did not tell them they had received a radiation overdose”, Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times, October 15, 2009; Cedars-Sinai finds more patients exposed to excess radiation, Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times, November 9, 2009;

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Adult Level III
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Adult Level IV
Pioneers Memorial Hospital • El Centro Regional Medical Center • Sutter Lakeside Hospital • Biggs-Gridley Memorial Hospital • Mayers Memorial Hospital District • Colusa Regional Medical Center • Glenn Medical Center • Seneca Hospital • Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital
Pediatric Level I
Pediatric Level II
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center • Harbor-UCLA Medical Center • Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center • Long Beach Memorial Medical Center • Children's Hospital and Health Center
California EMS Systems Division - Trauma

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