Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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

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.

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, Groucho Marx, Van Heflin, Jorge Negrete, Clifford Odets, Edna May Oliver, Alice Pearce, Frank Sinatra, Minnie Riperton, Jim Tully, and Clifton Webb died there. Benjamin Feingold was on the Pediatrics staff. Myron Prinzmetal worked there. Jesse Leonard Steinfeld did an internship there.

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. Its name then changed 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. 

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. . In fiscal year 2003, Cedars-Sinai served 46,854 inpatients and 194,172 outpatients. . 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. 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. It received high rankings in 10 of the 16 specialties, ranking in the top 10 for digestive disorders and in the top 25 for 8 other specialties as listed below. :

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.

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.

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.

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)
 * Groucho Marx (died there)
 * Johnny Carson (died there)
 * Benny Carter (died there)
 * Saul Chaplin (died there)
 * Darlene Conley (died there)
 * Chuck Connors (died there)
 * Jimmy Connors (hip replacement surgery)
 * Burt Convy (admitted after collapse)
 * 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)
 * Cary Elwes's wife (gave birth 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)
 * Merv Griffin (treated for prostate cancer then died there)
 * Eduard Gufeld (died there)
 * Larry Hagman (liver transplant)
 * Goldie Hawn (gave birth to Kate Hudson there)
 * Salma Hayek (gave birth there)
 * J Dilla (died there)
 * Tony Jay (died there)
 * Richard Jeni (died there)
 * Joyce Jillson (died there)
 * Janet Jones (gave birth there)
 * Andy Kaufman (died there)
 * Danny Kaye (died there)
 * Svetlana Khorkina (gave birth there)
 * Anthony Kiedis (hand surgery)
 * Larry King (treated for blocked artery)
 * 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)
 * Nancy O'Dell (gave birth there)
 * Melissa Peterman (gave birth there)
 * River Phoenix (died there)
 * Brad Pitt (treated for viral meningitis)
 * Too Poetic (died there)
 * Gilda Radner (died there)
 * Martha Raye (died there)
 * Lou Rawls (died there)
 * Minnie Riperton (died there)
 * Julia Roberts (gave birth there)
 * Aaron Russo (died there)
 * Elizabeth Taylor (brain tumor removal)
 * Danny Thomas (died there)
 * Adam Sandler's wife (Jackie Sandler) (gave birth there)
 * Isabel Sanford (died there)
 * Rebecca Schaeffer (died there)
 * Avery Schreiber (died there)
 * O.J. Simpson
 * Frank Sinatra (died there)
 * Britney Spears (gave birth there)
 * Tori Spelling (gave birth there)
 * Steven Spielberg (nephrectomy performed)
 * Gwen Stefani (gave birth there)
 * Rod Stewart (throat operation in 2000)
 * Danny Thomas (died there)
 * Dick Van Patten (treated for diabetic stroke)
 * Kanye West (recovered from car accident there)
 * Barry White (died there)
 * Owen Wilson (reportedly alleged suicide; transferred from Saint John's Health Center)
 * Dennis C. Stewart (died there)

Mentions in fiction
Cedars-Sinai is featured in the movie Volcano. It is also featured in Carl Hiassen's novel Basket Case.

A robot hospital in the animated series Futurama is called Cedars-Sinewave ("Bendin' in the Wind").

Cedars-Sinai is mentioned in the film Bulworth.

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!'''

In the book Less Than Zero Muriel is treated for anorexia at Cedars-Sinai.

The hospital was mentioned in the Fresh Prince of Bel-air episode "Ill Will", where Will meets another old man in the hospital and befriends him. However, one day the nurse says he has gone to a better place. At first, he thinks the man (Max) had died, however at this moment Max walks in and clearifies his better place as "Cederas-Sinai, they have cable."