Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary 958-bed hospital and multi-specialty academic health science centre located in Los Angeles, California, United States. Part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, the hospital employs a staff of over 2,000 physicians and 10,000 employees. A team of 2,000 volunteers and more than 40 community groups support a patient-base of over 16,000 people. Over 350 residents and fellows participate in more than 60 graduate medical education programs.
Cedars-Sinai focuses on biomedical research and technologically advanced medical education — based on an interdisciplinary collaboration between physicians and clinical researchers. The facility has research centers covering cardiovascular, genetics, gene therapy, gastroenterology, neuroscience, immunology, surgery, organ transplantation, stem cells, biomedical imaging and cancer — with more than 800 research projects underway (led by 230 Principal Investigators).
Certified as a level I trauma center for adults and pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai trauma-related services range from prevention to rehabilitation and are provided in concert with the hospital's Department of Surgery. Cedars-Sinai is affiliated with the California Heart Center, University of Southern California and David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
As of 2009, U.S. News & World Report rankings placed Cedars-Sinai in 11 adult specialties including #10 for gastroenterology, #13 in heart and heart surgery and #15 in neurology and neurosurgery. Located in the Harvey Morse Auditorium, Cedar-Sinai's patient care is depicted in the Jewish Contributions to Medicine mural. The heart transplantation program at Cedars Sinai Medical Center has experienced unprecedented growth since 2010 Statistically, Cedars Sinai currently performs more annual number of heart transplants than any other medical center in the world.
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