Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>California Department of Public Health, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Locations, Retrieved 11/16/2023, https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/healthcare-facility-locations/resource/098bbc36-044d-441f-9442-1f4db4d8aaa0?view_id=899aa853-3204-4376-a9a0-e7a55bd6ecfe</ref>Template:Overcite Part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, the hospital has a staff of over 2,000 physicians and 10,000 employees,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name = "Employer Profile">Template:Cite web</ref> supported by a team of 2,000 volunteers and more than 40 community groups.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> As of 2022–23, U.S. News & World Report ranked Cedars-Sinai among the top performing hospitals in the United States.<ref>"America's Best Hospitals: the 2022–2023 Honor Roll and Overview" U.S. News & World Report (Jul 26, 2022)</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Cedars-Sinai is a teaching hospital affiliate of David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), which was ranked in the top 20 on the U.S. News 2023 Best Medical Schools: Research.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Cedars-Sinai focuses on biomedical research and technologically advanced medical education based on an interdisciplinary collaboration between physicians and clinical researchers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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 (led by 230 principal investigators).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
History
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Founded by Jewish businessman Kaspare Cohn, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital was established as the Kaspare Cohn Hospital in 1902.<ref name = "American Historical Society">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name = "Jewishjournal.com Ahenker">Template:Cite news</ref> At the time, Cohn donated a two-story Victorian house at 1441 Carroll Avenue in the Angeleno Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. The hospital had just 12 beds when it opened on September 21, 1902, and its services were initially free.<ref name="Jewishjournal.com Ahenker" /> From 1906 to 1910, Sarah Vasen, the first Jewish female doctor in Los Angeles, acted as superintendent.<ref name = "Vasen">Template:Cite web</ref> In 1910, the hospital relocated and expanded to Stephenson Avenue (now Whittier Boulevard), where it had 50 beds and a backhouse containing a 10-cot tubercular ward.<ref name="Jewishjournal.com Ahenker" /> It gradually transformed from a charity-based hospital to a general hospital and began to charge patients.<ref name="JVL">Template:Cite web</ref> In 1930, the hospital moved to 4833 Fountain Avenue, where it opened as Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, named after the religiously significant Lebanon cedars tree (Cedrus libani), which were highly sought after and used to build King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. Cedars of Lebanon Hospital could accommodate 279 patients and was large and comprehensive, with all of the components of a modern medical facility.
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.<ref name = "JVL"/> In 1921, the hospice relocated to an eight-bed facility in Boyle Heights and was renamed Bikur Cholim Hospital.<ref name = "JVL"/> On November 7, 1926, it was renamed Mount Sinai Hospital and moved to a 50-bed facility on Bonnie Beach Place in Los Angeles.<ref name="Jewishjournal.com Ahenker" /><ref name = "JVL"/> Later, in 1950, a new Mount Sinai Hospital was built on land donated by Emma and Hyman Levine at 8700 Beverly Boulevard.<ref name="Jewishjournal.com Ahenker" /> They had purchased 3.5 acres of land and donated the property to Mount Sinai Hospital under the auspices of their foundation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name = "JVL"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name="Historical">Template:Cite web</ref> The new hospital was designed jointly by Albert C. Martin & Associates and Charles Luckman Associates.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The main contractor was Robert E. McKee, Inc.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref name="IDC Case Study">Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name="George Burns">Template:Cite web</ref> Opened in 1996, it houses biomedical research aimed at discovering genetic, molecular and immunological factors that trigger disease.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Helfand">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="REICH">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Los Angeles Times">Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Overcite
In 2006, Cedars-Sinai added the Saperstein Critical Care Tower with 150 ICU beds.<ref name="auto"/>
Template:As of, Cedars-Sinai served 54,947 inpatients, 350,405 outpatients, and 77,964 visits to the emergency room.<ref name = "2008 Report">Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name = "USNewsSpecificRankings">Template:Cite news</ref>
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.<ref name = "Cedars-Sinai Newswise">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Cedars-Sinai">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref name="youtube.com">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref name="Volunteer Uniforms - Cedars-Sinai">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref name="Moses Statue - Cedars-Sinai">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref name="Can You Spare A Dime - Cedars-Sinai">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref name="A Hen House in the Hospital - Cedar">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref name="Art Collection - Cedars-Sinai">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref name="10 Commandments - Cedars-Sinai">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>Template:Overcite
George W. Schaeffer and Irina Schaeffer, who donated $20 million to the Smidt Heart Institute, were one of their most substantial philanthropic contributors.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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:<ref name = "U.S. News Best Hospitals 2022-23: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center">Template:Cite web</ref>
| Specialty | Ranking |
|---|---|
| Cancer | 11 |
| Cardiology and Heart Surgery | 3 |
| Diabetes and Endocrinology | 12 |
| Ear, Nose, and Throat (Otolaryngology) | 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:<ref name = "National Research Corporation's (NRC)annual Healthcare Market Guide survey">Template:Cite web</ref>
| 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.<ref name = "Worth Magazine">Template:Cite web</ref>
Cedars-Sinai's Gynecologic Oncology Division was named among the nation's Top 10 Clinical Centers of Excellence by Contemporary OB/GYN in 2009.<ref name = "Contemporary OB/GYN">Template:Cite webTemplate:Clarify</ref>
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.<ref name="Research at Cedars-Sinai">"Research at Cedars-Sinai" Breakthrough Research (Jun 21, 2020)</ref> 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.<ref name="Research at Cedars-Sinai"/> Total research expenditure in 2020–21 was $252 million.<ref>"Facts and Reports, Cedars-Sinai" Financial Snapshot (Jun 30, 2021)</ref> In fiscal year 2021, Cedars-Sinai received $93 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Some notable research areas and organized research units at Cedars-Sinai are:<ref>"Research Areas, Centers and Programs at Cedars-Sinai" Research Areas (Jun 21, 2020)</ref>
- 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 Cedars-Sinai Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (formerly known as Cedars-Sinai's Graduate Research Education division), established in 2008, is a graduate college at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. It offers PhD and Master's programs in Biomedical Sciences and healthcare fields.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> There are more than 100 faculty, and over 150 enrollment; the Dean is Shlomo Melmed, MB, ChB, FRCP, MACP.<ref>[1]. cedars-sinai.org/education/graduate-school. Retrieved on 2021-01-01.</ref>
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 (named for George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen), which is located inside the Barbara and Marvin Davis Research Building on Cedars-Sinai campus.<ref name="George Burns"/> Opened in 1996, it houses biomedical research aimed at discovering genetic, molecular and immunological factors that trigger disease.<ref name="auto"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Helfand"/><ref name="REICH"/><ref name="Los Angeles Times"/> 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.<ref name="Cedars-Sinai Newswise"/><ref name="Cedars-Sinai"/><ref name="youtube.com"/><ref name="Volunteer Uniforms - Cedars-Sinai"/><ref name="Moses Statue - Cedars-Sinai"/><ref name="Can You Spare A Dime - Cedars-Sinai"/><ref name="A Hen House in the Hospital - Cedar"/><ref name="Art Collection - Cedars-Sinai"/><ref name="10 Commandments - Cedars-Sinai"/>
PhD Program:
- Biomedical Sciences
Master's Programs:
- Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- Health Delivery Science
- Regenerative Medicine
Professional Training Programs:
- Postdoctoral Scientist Program
- Clinical Scholars Program
- Research Internship Program
Notable staff
- Keith Black, Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, has performed over 4,000 brain surgeries and has made significant medical advances relating to neurosurgery.<ref name="csbio">[2] at the Cedars-Sinai official website.</ref>
- George Berci, oldest surgeon
- Bruce Gewertz, Surgeon-in-Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery, Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs and Vice-President for Interventional Services.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Elsie Giorgi, former head of clinics
- David Ho was a resident at Cedars-Sinai when he encountered some of the first cases of what was later labeled AIDS.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Calvin Johnson, Professor of Anesthesiology
- Verne Mason, internist and chairman of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's medical advisory committee. Mason gave the disease sickle cell anemia its name.Template:Citation needed
- Jason H. Moore, Chair of the Department of Computational Biomedicine and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education (CAIRE)
- David Rimoin, chair of Pediatrics for 18 years, specialized in genetics and was a pioneer researcher in dwarfism and skeletal dysplasia. Together with Michael Kaback, he discovered the enzyme screening for Tay-Sachs disease, reducing the incidence of the deadly disease by 90 percent.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Karine Sargsyan, physician, geneticist, and foresight scientist
- William Shell was a director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Cedars-Sinai.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind, a neurologist and psychiatrist who was chair of the Department of Psychiatry.
- Adam Springfield, who acted on the PBS series Wishbone, is now a Labor and Delivery scheduler.
- Jeremy Swan co-invented the pulmonary artery catheter together with William Ganz while at Cedars-Sinai.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Nicholas Tatonetti, associate director of computational oncology in the cancer center.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Neal ElAttrache, orthepedic surgeon
Controversy
In 2008, state regulators found that Cedars-Sinai had placed the Quaid twins and others in immediate jeopardy by its improper handling of blood-thinning medication.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
According to articles in the Los Angeles Times in 2009, Cedars-Sinai was under investigation for significant radiation overdoses of 206 patients during CT brain perfusion scans during a period of 18 months.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Zarembo">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;</ref> Since the initial investigation, it was found that GE sold several products to various medical centers with faulty radiation monitoring devices.Template:Citation needed
In 2011, Cedars-Sinai again created controversy by denying a liver transplant to medical marijuana patient Norman Smith. They removed Mr. Smith from a transplant waiting list for "non-compliance of our substance abuse contract",<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> despite his own oncologist at Cedars-Sinai having recommended that he use the marijuana for his pain and chemotherapy.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Dr. Steven D. Colquhoun, director of the Liver Transplant Program, said that the hospital "must consider issues of substance abuse seriously", but the transplant center did not seriously consider whether Mr. Smith was "using" marijuana versus "abusing" it.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2012, Cedars-Sinai denied a liver transplant to a second patient, Toni Trujillo, after her Cedars-Sinai doctors knew and approved of her legal use of medical marijuana. In both cases, the patients acceded to the hospital's demand and stopped using medical marijuana, despite its therapeutic benefits for them, but were both sent back to the bottom of the transplant list.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Smith's death led Americans for Safe Access to lobby for the California Medical Cannabis Organ Transplant Act (AB 258), which was enacted in July 2015 to prevent patients who use marijuana from being denied organ transplants.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Patient data security breaches
On June 18 through June 24, 2013, six employees were terminated for inappropriately accessing 14 patient records around the time Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's daughter was born at the hospital.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On June 23, 2014, an unencrypted employee laptop was stolen from an employee's home. The laptop contained patient Social Security numbers and patient health data.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Art collection
First developed by philanthropists Frederick and Marcia Weisman, Cedars-Sinai's modern and contemporary art collection dates to 1976 and includes more than 4,000 original paintings, sculptures, new media installations and limited-edition prints by the likes of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, Claes Oldenburg, Willem de Kooning, Raymond Pettibon and Pablo Picasso. At any given time, 90 to 95 percent of the collection is on display. Nine large-scale works are located in courtyards, parking lots, and public walkways throughout the approximately 30-acre campus. The collection consists entirely of gifts from donors, other institutions, and occasionally the artists themselves.<ref>Deborah Vankin (July 7, 2014), Abstract Frank Stella sculpture 'Adjoeman' joins Cedars-Sinai artworks Los Angeles Times.</ref>
There is a statue of Moses in the parking lot. However, the two tablets of the covenant that, according to the story, Moses received at Mount Sinai, are blank on the statue. This led many people to ask, "Why is Moses in the parking lot?" In response, the director of community engagement, Jonathan Schreiber, has given a brief lecture explaining the history of the statue's role in the hospital merger.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
References
External links
- Official Cedars-Sinai website
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center – California Healthcare Atlas, California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
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