Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Infobox Hospital
Name = Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Org/Group =
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 inLos 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 KingSolomon 'sTemple in Jerusalem in theBible .Donations from the
Max Factor Family Foundation allowed the construction of the current main hospital building, which opened onNovember 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 thepulmonary 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]
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