Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
hospital in Los Angeles, California, United States
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a 919-bed teaching hospital and research center in Los Angeles, California.
It is part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, which includes other hospitals and a network of local doctors' offices that display its name along with a number of research institutes.
The hospital is certified as a Level I trauma center. It has a staff of over 2,000 physicians and 10,000 employees, supported by 2,000 volunteers and more than 40 community groups.
Its research institutes focus on biomedical research and technologically advanced medical education. 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.
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. She was one of Los Angeles's first women doctors.
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.
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