Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai Health System
View of North and South Towers of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Geography
Location8700 Beverly Boulevard, California, United States
Coordinates34°04′31″N 118°22′50″W / 34.075198°N 118.380676°W / 34.075198; -118.380676
Organization
Care systemNon-profit
TypeTeaching
PatronKaspare Cohn
Services
Emergency departmentLevel I trauma center
Beds915 beds
SpecialityGeneral
Helipads
HelipadFAA LID: CA46
Number Length Surface
ft m
H1 62 × 62 19 × 19 concrete
H2 80 × 80 24 × 24 asphalt/concrete
History
Founded1902, 1918, 1961
Links
Websitecedars-sinai.org/home.html
ListsHospitals in California

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary, 915-bed teaching hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California.

It is part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, which includes other owned or affiliated hospitals and a network of local doctors' offices that display its name along with research institutes in genetics, neurosurgery, cancer and cardiology.

The hospital has a staff of over 2,000 physicians and 10,000 employees, supported by a team of 2,000 volunteers and more than 40 community groups. As of 2022–23, U.S. News & World Report ranked Cedars-Sinai among the top performing hospitals in the United States. Cedars-Sinai is a teaching hospital affiliate of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Cedars-Sinai focuses on biomedical research and technologically advanced medical education based on an interdisciplinary collaboration between physicians and clinical researchers. 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).

The hospital is certified as a Level I trauma center for adults and children.