Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a 915-bed teaching hospital and research center in Los Angeles, California.

It is part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, which includes other hospitals and a network of local doctors' offices that display its name along with a number of research institutes.

The hospital is certified as a Level I trauma center. As a teaching hospital, it is affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It has a staff of over 2,000 physicians and 10,000 employees, supported by 2,000 volunteers and more than 40 community groups. It has consistently received high ratings in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Rankings.

Its research institutes focus on biomedical research and technologically advanced medical education. 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).