Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Where clinical breakthroughs meet a legacy of compassionate care since 1902.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a nonprofit, tertiary teaching hospital located in the Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is a major medical center providing advanced adult and pediatric care across numerous specialties, and is known for its research and graduate medical education programs.
Quick Facts
- Location
- 8700 Beverly Boulevard
- Region
- Los Angeles
- Healthcare
- Non-profit
- Speciality
- General
- Patron
- Kaspare Cohn
- Beds
- 919 beds
- Founded
- 1902, 1918, 1961
Lore & Background
Founded in 1902 as the Kaspare Cohn Hospital in Los Angeles, the institution was renamed Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in 1930. In 1961, it merged with Mount Sinai Hospital (Los Angeles) to form Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The hospital has its own graduate medical education programs and is not affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Cedars-Sinai physicians and researchers have contributed to advances in cardiology, oncology, and genetics, among other fields. The hospital is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the United States, with its own distinct rankings separate from those of New York hospitals.
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