Everything about Cedars-sinai Medical Center totally explained
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a
hospital located in
Los Angeles, California.
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.
Cedars of Lebanon was founded on
September 21,
1902 as Kaspare-Cohn Hospital, as tuberculous sanitarium located at 1443 Carrol Street in Los Angeles. 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. The hospital changed its focus, now providing for the needs of its non-tubercular patients. From 1906 to 1910, Dr. Sarah Vasen, the first woman doctor in Los Angeles acted as superintendent.
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,
Elvis Presley and many others over the years.
Benjamin Feingold was on the Pediatrics staff.
Myron Prinzmetal worked there.
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld did an internship there.
Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables was started by the
Bikur Cholim Society in 1918, as a two-room
hospice. It was renamed Bikur Cholim Hospital in 1921 after relocating to a
Boyle Heights residence. 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. 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. The new building opened in 1955. Donations from the
Max Factor Family Foundation allowed the construction of the current main hospital building, which opened on
November 5,
1972.
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. In 2001, there were 77,347 visits to the emergency room.
In fiscal year 2003, Cedars-Sinai served 46,854 inpatients and 194,172 outpatients.. 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. 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. 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.:
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.
Employees, staff and officers
Cedars-Sinai is run by a Board of Directors having as many as 42 members. The members elect a chair, who directs the Chief Executive Officer. Current and former Board members include
Steven Spielberg,
Jeffrey Katzenberg,
John Mack, and
Sherry Lansing.
Many employees are represented by
Service Employees International Union. 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.
The hospital's workforce has a very diverse ethnic composition, with a majority of the registered nurses of
Filipino or other
Asian descent.
Famous doctors
Jeremy Swan co-invented the
pulmonary artery catheter together with Willie Ganz while at Cedars.
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David Ho was a resident there when he encountered some of the first cases of what was later labelled AIDS.
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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.
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