Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Infobox Hospital
Name = Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Org/Group =

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Caption = View of North and South Towers

Location = 8700 Beverly Blvd,
Region = Los Angeles
State = California
Country = US
HealthCare = Private
Type = Community, Teaching
Speciality = General
Standards =
Emergency = I
Affiliation= UCLA, USC, Other
Beds = 809 general, 68 psychiatric
Founded = 1902
Closed =
Website = http://www.csmc.edu/
Wiki-Links = |

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

History

From 1906 to 1910, Dr. Sarah Vasen, the first woman doctor in Los Angeles acted as superintendent.cite web | author = Beardsley, Julie | title = Dr. Sarah Vasen: First Jewish Woman Doctor In Los Angeles; First Superintendent Of Cedars-Sinai Hospital | url = http://home.earthlink.net/~nholdeneditor/Sarah%20Vasen.htm | date = April, 2003 | accessdate = 2008-02-21]

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.

Donations from the Max Factor Family Foundation allowed the construction of the current main hospital building, which opened on November 5, 1972.cite web | title = Historical Perspective | url = http://www.csmc.edu/pdf/HistPersp703.pdf | format = PDF | publisher = Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | date = July, 2003 | accessdate = 2008-02-21]

Current status

In 2001, there were 77,347 visits to the emergency room. cite web | author = Aushenker, Michael | title = Did You Know...? | url = http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=9372 | publisher = The Jewish Journal | date = 2002-10-04 | accessdate = 2008-02-21] In fiscal year 2003, Cedars-Sinai served 46,854 inpatients and 194,172 outpatients.cite web | title = Our Report To Our Community, 2003 | url = http://www.csmc.edu/pdf/CS2003_Final.pdf | format = PDF | publisher = Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | date = 2003 | accessdate = 2008-02-21] . 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.cite news | title = America's Best Hospitals | date = 2007 | publisher = U.S. News & World Report | url = http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/honorroll.htm | accessdate = 2007-10-18] 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.cite news | title = America's Best Hospitals | date = 2007 | publisher = U.S. News & World Report | url = http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/directory/hospital-detail.php?id=6930444 | accessdate = 2007-10-18] :

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.

Famous doctors

Jeremy Swan co-invented the pulmonary artery catheter together with Willie Ganz while at Cedars. [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]
David Ho was a resident there when he encountered some of the first cases of what was later labelled AIDS. [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]

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.

References

External links

* [http://www.csmc.edu/ Official Cedars-Sinai website]