Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary, 915-bed teaching hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California.
It is part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, which includes other owned or affiliated hospitals and a network of local doctors' offices that display its name along with research institutes in genetics, neurosurgery, cancer and cardiology.
The hospital has a staff of over 2,000 physicians and 10,000 employees, supported by a team of 2,000 volunteers and more than 40 community groups. As of 2022–23, U.S. News & World Report ranked Cedars-Sinai among the top performing hospitals in the United States. Cedars-Sinai is a teaching hospital affiliate of David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Cedars-Sinai focuses on biomedical research and technologically advanced medical education based on an interdisciplinary collaboration between physicians and clinical researchers. The academic enterprise at Cedars-Sinai has research centers covering cardiovascular, genetics, gene therapy, gastroenterology, neuroscience, immunology, surgery, organ transplantation, stem cells, biomedical imaging, and cancer, with more than 500 clinical trials and 900 research projects currently underway.
Certified as a level I trauma center for adults and pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai trauma-related services range from prevention to rehabilitation and are provided in concert with the hospital's Department of Surgery. Named after the Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai, Cedars-Sinai's patient care is depicted in the Jewish Contributions to Medicine mural located in the Harvey Morse Auditorium.
History
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Kaspare Cohn Hospital was founded in 1902, named for its major donor, a Jewish businessman who later founded the bank that became Union Bank & Trust Company and is now part of U.S. Bancorp. The hospital's first superintendent, Sarah Vasen, was a graduate of the University of Iowa Medical School who had been the superintendent and obstetrician for the Jewish Maternity Home in Philadelphia.The hospital was intended to serve both the Jewish community and the patients of Jewish doctors, who were denied admitting privileges in other hospitals because of discrimination.
In 1930, the hospital moved to a new building in Hollywood and changed its name to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, after the trees mentioned frequently in Scripture and reputed to have medicinal properties.
Mount Sinai Hospital
Meanwhile, in 1918, the Bikur Cholim Society opened a two-room hospice, the Bikur Cholim Hospice, when the Great Influenza Pandemic hit the United States of America. In 1921, the hospice relocated to an eight-bed facility in Boyle Heights and was renamed Bikur Cholim Hospital. On November 7, 1926, it was renamed Mount Sinai Hospital and moved to a 50-bed facility on Bonnie Beach Place in Los Angeles. Later, in 1950, a new Mount Sinai Hospital was built on land donated by Emma and Hyman Levine at 8700 Beverly Boulevard. They had purchased 3.5 acres of land and donated the property to Mount Sinai Hospital under the auspices of their foundation.Merger of Cedars of Lebanon Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital
Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai hospitals merged in 1961 to form Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The unification of both hospitals was made necessary by population growth and modern medical progress. A donation of $4 million by the Max Factor Family Foundation allowed the construction of the main hospital building, which broke ground on November 5, 1972, and opened on April 3, 1976. The new hospital was designed jointly by Albert C. Martin & Associates and Charles Luckman Associates. The main contractor was Robert E. McKee, Inc. While the main hospital buildings were being built the Thalians Mental Health Center also designed by Martin and Luckman was being constructed. The main contractor was the Del E. Webb Corporation, and the Thalians Center was completed in 1973.In 1994, the Cedars-Sinai Health System was established, constituting the Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation, the Burns and Allen Research Institute, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The Burns and Allen Research Institute, named for George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, is located inside the Barbara and Marvin Davis Research Building. Opened in 1996, it houses biomedical research aimed at discovering genetic, molecular and immunological factors that trigger disease.
In 2006, Cedars-Sinai added the Saperstein Critical Care Tower with 150 ICU beds.
, Cedars-Sinai served 54,947 inpatients, 350,405 outpatients, and 77,964 visits to the emergency room. Cedars-Sinai received high rankings in 11 of the 16 specialties, ranking in the top 10 for digestive disorders and in the top 25 for five other specialties as listed below.
In 2013, Cedars-Sinai opened its 800,000-square-foot Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion, which consists of eight stories of program space located over a six-story parking structure, on the eastern edge of its campus at the corner of San Vicente Boulevard and Gracie Allen Drive. Designed by the architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, the pavilion brings patient care and translational research together in one site. The Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion houses the Cedars-Sinai's neurosciences programs, the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and Regenerative Medicine Institute laboratories, as well as outpatient surgery suites, an imaging area, and an education center.
George W. Schaeffer and Irina Schaeffer, who donated $20 million to the Smidt Heart Institute, were one of their most substantial philanthropic contributors.
Rankings
In 2022–23, U.S News ranked Cedars-Sinai the best hospital in California ahead of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, which topped the 2021–22 rankings, and second-best in the United States behind Mayo Clinic. Cedars-Sinai ranked as follows in adult medical specialties in the nationwide U.S. News Best Hospitals 2022–23 report:| Specialty | Ranking |
| Cancer | 11 |
| Cardiology and Heart Surgery | 3 |
| Diabetes and Endocrinology | 12 |
| Ear, Nose, and Throat | 3 |
| Gastroenterology and GI surgery | 2 |
| Geriatrics | 10 |
| Nephrology | Not ranked |
| Neurology and Neurosurgery | 7 |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 15 |
| Orthopedics | 3 |
| Psychiatry | Not ranked |
| Pulmonology and Lung Surgery | 3 |
| Rehabilitation | Not Ranked |
| Rheumatology | Not Ranked |
| Urology | 3 |
Cedars-Sinai ranked as follows in the 2009 Los Angeles area residents' "Most Preferred Hospital for All Health Needs" ranking:
| Specialty | Ranking |
| Digestive disorders | 10 |
| Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery | 13 |
| Endocrinology | 19 |
| Neurology and Neurosurgery | 15 |
| Respiratory Disorders | 29 |
| Geriatrics | 33 |
| Gynecology | 23 |
| Kidney disease | 20 |
| Orthopedics | 26 |
| Urology | 38 |
Worth selected Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute as one of the United States' Top-25 Hospitals for Cardiac Bypass Surgery.
Cedars-Sinai's Gynecologic Oncology Division was named among the nation's Top 10 Clinical Centers of Excellence by Contemporary OB/GYN in 2009.
Research
Cedars-Sinai is one of the leading institutes for competitive research funding from the National Institutes of Health. As an international leader in biomedical research, it translates discoveries into successful treatments with global impact. Cedars-Sinai investigators pair basic scientific research in areas of stem cell biology, immunology, neuroscience, and genetics, with clinical and translational discoveries, to continue advancing medical breakthroughs. Total research expenditure in 2020–21 was $252 million. In fiscal year 2021, Cedars-Sinai received $93 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health.Some notable research areas and organized research units at Cedars-Sinai are:
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Biomanufacturing Center
- Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Research Center
- Cancer Research
- Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics
- Center for Cardiac Arrest Prevention
- Center for Integrated Research in Cancer and Lifestyle
- Center for Neural Science and Medicine
- Center for Outcomes Research and Education
- Center for Space Medicine Research
- Diabetes and Obesity Research
- Digestive Diseases Research
- Division of Informatics
- Endocrinology Research
- Genetics and Genomics Research
- Heart Research
- Imaging Research
- Immunology and Infectious Diseases Research
- Medically Associated Science and Technology
- Neurosciences Research
- Pulmonary Research
- Regenerative Medicine Institute
- Stem Cell Research
- Surgery Research
- Women's Health Research
Cedars-Sinai Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
The school offers programs at the Master's and Doctoral levels. Didactic lectures are conducted at the Pacific Design Center while research is conducted at the medical center, specifically at the Burns and Allen Research Institute, which is located inside the Barbara and Marvin Davis Research Building on Cedars-Sinai campus. Opened in 1996, it houses biomedical research aimed at discovering genetic, molecular and immunological factors that trigger disease. In 2013 new research labs were created, when Cedars-Sinai opened its 800,000-square-foot Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion, which consists of eight stories of program space located over a six-story parking structure, on the eastern edge of its campus at the corner of San Vicente Boulevard and Gracie Allen Drive. Designed by the architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, the pavilion brings patient care and translational research together in one site. The Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion houses the Cedars-Sinai's neurosciences programs, the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and Regenerative Medicine Institute laboratories, as well as outpatient surgery suites, an imaging area, and an education center.
PhD Program:
- Biomedical Sciences
- Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- Health Delivery Science
- Regenerative Medicine
- Postdoctoral Scientist Program
- Clinical Scholars Program
- Research Internship Program