Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

View of North and South Towers
Location
Place	Los Angeles, California, (US)
Organization
Care System/Type	Unknown
Affiliated University	Private
Services
Emergency Dept.	Level I trauma center
Beds	809 general, 68 psychiatric
History
Founded	1961
Links
Website	Homepage
See also	Hospitals in California

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History

Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as Founding Life Chairman of the new facility. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Samuel Steve Broidy (1905-1991) was a notable figure in the 20th-century U.S. motion picture industry. ...

Cedars of Lebanon was founded on September 21, 1902 as Kaspare-Cohn Hospital. In 1910, it moved to Whittier Boulevard and then in 1930 to 4833 Fountain Avenue, where it was renamed Cedars of Lebanon. Foreshadowing Cedars-Sinai as "the hospital of the stars," Lebanon had a roster of famous patients: Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Cedric Hardwicke, Curly Howard, John Huston, Juliana of the Netherlands, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley. Lucille Ball gave birth to Desi Arnaz, Jr. there. Judy Garland gave birth to Liza Minnelli there. Natalie Cole and Micky Dolenz were born there, as were Charles Correll's son, Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee's son, Rod Taylor's daughter, and Guy Williams's son. Gracie Allen, Darin, George Gershwin, Van Heflin, Jorge Negrete, Clifford Odets, Edna May Oliver, Alice Pearce, Minnie Riperton, Jim Tully, and Clifton Webb died there. Benjamin Feingold was on the Pediatrics staff. Myron Prinzmetal worked there. 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Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables was started by the Bikur Cholim Society in 1918, as a two-room hospice. It was renamed Bikur Cholim Hospital in 1921 after relocating to a Boyle Heights residence. It changed its name again to Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables in 1923, and moved in 1926 to a larger facility on Bonnie Beach Place. The current Beverly Boulevard site was purchased by Emma and Hyman Levine and donated to the hospital. The new building opened in 1955. Donations from the Max Factor Family Foundation allowed the construction of the current main hospital building, which opened on November 5, 1972. [1] Boyle Heights is a district on the east side of Los Angeles, California. ... The cosmetic firm Max Factor was named after Max Factor, Sr (b. ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Current status

Cedars-Sinai is California's largest private hospital with over 8,000 employees and 900 beds. In 2001, there were 77,347 visits to the emergency room. [2]. In fiscal year 2003, Cedars-Sinai served 46,854 inpatients and 194,172 outpatients. [3]. It has been ranked by US News and World Reports as being in the top echelon of hospitals in areas as diverse as cardiology, endocrinology, Ob/Gyn, neurology and neurosurgery. It ranks in the top 20 of free-standing hospitals with regard to grant funding with 60 awards totalling $20,574,450 from the NIH. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January events January 1 Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... NIH can refer to: National Institutes of Health Norwegian School of Sports Sciences: (Norges idrettshøgskole - NIH) Not Invented Here This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Employees, staff and officers

Cedars-Sinai is run by a Board of Directors having as many as 42 members. The members elect a chair, who directs the Chief Executive Officer. Current and former Board members include Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, John Mack, and Sherry Lansing. Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and producer. ... Jeffrey Katzenberg (born December 21, 1950 in New York City) is an American film producer and Chief Executive Officer of DreamWorks Animation SKG. He is perhaps most famous for his period as studio chairman at The Walt Disney Company, and for producing the movie Shrek (2001). ... John Mack was born in Somerville, New Jersey and attended the Julliard School of Music, studying with Harold Gomberg and Bruno Labate and then at the Curtis Institute of Music with the legendary Marcel Tabuteau. ... Sherry Lansing (born July 31, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois as Sherry Lee Heimann) is the former CEO of Paramount Studios and the first woman to head a major studio. ...

Many employees are represented by Service Employees International Union. Registered nurses voted to be represented by the California Nurses Association in 2002, but have been engaged in a dispute with the hospital Board of Directors over recognition of the nurses' unionization vote. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a labor union representing 1. ... The California Nurses Association is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in California. ...

The hospital's workforce is very diverse, with a majority of the registered nurses of Filipino or other Asian ethnicities.

Famous doctors

Jeremy Swan co-invented the pulmonary artery catheter together with Willie Ganz while at Cedars. David Ho was a resident there. Jeremy Swan (June 1, 1922 – February 7, 2005) was an Irish cardiologist from Sligo who co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter (widely used in intensive care units). ... In medicine or biomedical engineering, pulmonary artery catheterization is the insertion of a catheter into a pulmonary artery. ... David Ta-i Ho (何大一, pinyin: Hé Dàyī) (born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV infected patients. ...

List of famous patients

• Don Adams (died there)
• Robert Altman (died there)
• Carl Anderson (died there)
• Kim Basinger (back surgery)
• Annette Bening (gave birth there)
• Marcheline Bertrand (died there)
• Jonathan Brandis (died there)
• Lucille Ball (died there)
• Charles Bronson (died there)
• Brooke Burke (gave birth there)
• Sammy Cahn (died there)
• Johnny Carson (died there)
• Benny Carter (died there)
• Saul Chaplin (died there)
• Chuck Connors (died there)
• Richard Crenna (died there)
• Joel Crothers (died there)
• Sammy Davis Jr. (died there)
• Leonardo DiCaprio (knee surgery)
• Dominique Dunne (died there)
• Eazy-E (died there)
• Helen Fielding (gave birth there)
• John Frankenheimer (died there)
• Jodie Foster (gave birth there)
• Eva Gabor (died there)
• Zsa Zsa Gabor
• David Gahan (recovery from attempted suicide)
• Judy Garland (gave birth to Liza Minnelli there)
• Jennifer Garner (gave birth there)
• Leeza Gibbons (gave birth there)
• Eduard Gufeld (died there)
• Larry Hagman (liver transplant)
• Goldie Hawn (gave birth to Kate Hudson there)
• Tony Jay (died there)
• Joyce Jillson (died there)
• Janet Jones (gave birth there)
• Andy Kaufman (died there)
• Danny Kaye (died there)
• Anthony Kiedis (hand surgery)
• Don Knotts (died there)
• Kurt Kreuger (died there)
• Shari Lewis (died there)
• Lindsay Lohan (treated for exhaustion)
• Courtney Love (gave birth there)
• Madonna (hernial procedure)
• Bruce Malmuth (died there)
• Audrey Meadows (died there)
• Debra Messing (gave birth there)
• Ann Miller (died there)
• Shelley Morrison
• Olivia Newton-John (gave birth there)
• Sheree North (died there)
• Notorious B.I.G. (died there)
• River Phoenix (died there)
• Brad Pitt (treated for viral meningitis)
• Gilda Radner (died there)
• Martha Raye (died there)
• Lou Rawls (died there)
• Minnie Riperton (died there)
• Julia Roberts (gave birth there)
• Elizabeth Taylor (brain tumor removal)
• Danny Thomas (died there)
• Isabel Sanford (died there)
• Avery Schreiber (died there)
• O.J. Simpson
• Frank Sinatra (died there)
• Britney Spears (gave birth there)
• Steven Spielberg (nephrectomy performed)
• Gwen Stefani (gave birth there)
• Rod Stewart (throat operation in 2000)
• Danny Thomas (died there)
• Kanye West (recovered from car accident there)
• Barry White (died there)
• Svetlana Khorkina (gave birth there)
• Magda Pinell (gave birth there)
• Paris Hilton (Treated for miscarriage in 2003) (Under the false name, Amber Taylor)

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Mentions in fiction

Cedars-Sinewave Robot Hospital in Futurama

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A robot hospital in the animated series Futurama is called Cedars-Sinewave ("Bendin' in the Wind"). Futurama is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox Network. ... Bendin in the Wind is the 13th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ...

In the animated series, The Simpsons, one of three shrunken heads on a gypsys table exclaims, in the episode, The Simpsons:Treehouse of Horror XII: Hey! This isn't Cedars-Sinai! Simpsons redirects here. ... Treehouse of Horror XII is the first episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season, as well as the twelfth Halloween episode. ...

External links

• Official Cedars-Sinai website