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Cedars Sinai Medical Center
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Number of Contributors: 18
WARNING: Does this hospital have less than 25 reviews?
If so, don't let a small sample size bias you.
Subjective reviews below are relayed merely as a partial and incomplete
research tool.
Survey Questions:
- How would you rate its overall value? (“Overall Value”)
- How well equipped was the hospital to handle overweight patients? (“Oversized Equipped”)
- How sensitive was the staff to the needs of overweight patients? (“Oversized Sensitive”)
- How safe did you feel that the hospital was well equipped enough to handle any medical
emergency that might arise during your stay there? (“Multi Security”)
- How much privacy did you feel the hospital gave you? (“Privacy”)
- How responsive did you feel the hospital was in giving you pain medications? (“Pain Medications”)
- How restfully quiet did you find your experience? (“Quiet”)
- How accommodating was the hospital in allowing visitors to see you? (“Visiting”)
- How responsive do you feel the staff was in helping you with your general needs during
your stay? (“Staff Responsive”)
- How would you rate the parking accomodations? (“Parking”)
- How did you select this hospital? (“How Selected”)
- How would you compare this hospital to others that you have been to? (“Competitors”)
- What other comments do you have about this hospital? (“Comments”)
| Posted by: |
Marco C. (Posted on September 18, 2008) |
| Overall Value: |
Average |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Good |
| Multi Security: |
Good |
Privacy: |
Good |
Pain Medication: |
Good |
| Quiet: |
Good |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Good |
| Parking: |
Average |
| How Selected:
| MY INSURANCE SEND ME THERE |
| Comments: |
MY SURGERY WAS DONE AT 9:30 IWAS IN RECOVERY FROM 10:30 AM TILL 8 PM SOPOUSELT THEY DIN'T HAD ANY BEDS? BAD EXPIRENCE IN RECOVERY I FELT DISCRIMINATED |
| Posted by: |
Misti K. (Posted on August 24, 2008) |
| Overall Value: |
Good |
Oversized Equipped: |
Good |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Good |
| Multi Security: |
Good |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Average |
| Quiet: |
Average |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Average |
| Parking: |
Poor |
| How Selected:
| My insurance only allowed either Cedar Sinai which is 80 miles from our home. Or a hospital in Fresno. Why do you think I choose Cedar Sinai? |
| Comments: |
Parking was very poor. We had to pay!!!!!! In the hospital parking garage!!!! |
| Posted by: |
Linda K. (Posted on August 21, 2008) |
| Overall Value: |
Excellent |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Excellent |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Good |
| Quiet: |
Good |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Good |
| Parking: |
Average |
| How Selected:
| Reputation and family experience |
| Competitors: |
Much better than the hospitals in my own community. |
| Comments: |
Would recommend to others. Care was of much higher standard then other hospital stays. |
| Posted by: |
Cj L. (Posted on July 26, 2008) |
| Overall Value: |
Excellent |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Excellent |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Excellent |
| Quiet: |
Good |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Excellent |
| Parking: |
Average |
| How Selected:
| It is the hospital that my doctor uses for people that have my insurance. |
| Competitors: |
It is really top of the line. Very clean, and the staff was wonderful. |
| Comments: |
I love the nurses there. They were so helpful! |
| Posted by: |
Rosie C. (Posted on July 19, 2008) |
| Overall Value: |
Excellent |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Excellent |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Excellent |
| Quiet: |
Excellent |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Excellent |
| Parking: |
Excellent |
| How Selected:
| I ask my insurance for a hospital that could accommadate my special needs. I had had a bad experience at another hospital ( Inland Valley Medical Hospital in Murrietta) 1 year before. |
| Competitors: |
Excellent Hospital. |
| Comments: |
Everyone was very attentive. |
| Posted by: |
Mary K. (Posted on June 17, 2008) |
| Overall Value: |
Average |
Oversized Equipped: |
Good |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Poor |
| Multi Security: |
Good |
Privacy: |
Good |
Pain Medication: |
Poor |
| Quiet: |
Average |
Visiting: |
Good |
Staff Responsive: |
Poor |
| Parking: |
Very Poor |
| Posted by: |
Joan B. (Posted on May 13, 2008) |
| Overall Value: |
Poor |
Oversized Equipped: |
Good |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Good |
| Multi Security: |
Good |
Privacy: |
Good |
Pain Medication: |
Poor |
| Quiet: |
Average |
Visiting: |
Good |
Staff Responsive: |
Average |
| Parking: |
Poor |
| How Selected:
| surgeon and reputation |
| Competitors: |
could have HIGH INFECTION RATE (MRSA) that is unpublished due to california law |
| Comments: |
Surgery on 2-23-07 I contracted a staff infection(MRSA) as did another patient who had bypass before me with the same doctor and ended up in ICU for 45 days,hospitalized for 3 months and took 1 year total to recover fron infection which left me with peripheral neuropathy. I did lose close to 200 pounds but feel that all california hospitals should be required to PUBLISH INFECTION RATES!!!!!! |
| Posted by: |
Sandie P. (Posted on May 6, 2008) |
| How Selected:
| Cedars is the best and my insurance covers it. |
| Posted by: |
Diana D. (Posted on April 28, 2008) |
| Overall Value: |
Excellent |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Good |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Excellent |
| Quiet: |
Good |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Excellent |
| Parking: |
Poor |
| How Selected:
| my insurance company sent me there |
| Competitors: |
superior |
| Comments: |
they not only take care of the need of the patient but have many amenties for the visitors which is wonderful. |
| Posted by: |
Debi B. (Posted on April 11, 2008) |
| Overall Value: |
Excellent |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Excellent |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Excellent |
| Quiet: |
Excellent |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Excellent |
| Parking: |
Average |
| How Selected:
| This was the hospital that my insurance sent me to. boy am I glad they did! |
| Competitors: |
This is the Hilton of Hospitals. All of the rooms are private and the staff are great |
| Comments: |
If there is any way to get your surgery at this hospital DO IT! my stay was a peice of cake because they are so great. |
| Posted by: |
Michelle M. (Posted on January 5, 2008) |
| Overall Value: |
Good |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Excellent |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Excellent |
| Quiet: |
Good |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Excellent |
| Parking: |
Poor |
| How Selected:
| I didnt, my insurance did. |
| Competitors: |
Very good |
| Posted by: |
Aundrea S. (Posted on December 27, 2007) |
| Overall Value: |
Excellent |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Excellent |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Good |
| Quiet: |
Excellent |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Good |
| Parking: |
Excellent |
| How Selected:
| Referral by primary care physician. |
| Competitors: |
I think Cedars is the best in the Los Angeles area |
| Posted by: |
Charming G. (Posted on December 24, 2007) |
| Overall Value: |
Excellent |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Excellent |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Excellent |
| Quiet: |
Excellent |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Excellent |
| Parking: |
Good |
| How Selected:
| Cedars-Sinai has a well-deserved reputation for being a top-notch teaching and research facility with excellent care, and I went there because all of the highly recommended doctors available locally were practicing only out of this hospital. |
| Competitors: |
Cedars offers higher quality care than UCLA, Santa Monica, Century City, St. John's -- and these are all great West LA hospitals. |
| Posted by: |
Irene H. (Posted on October 29, 2007) |
| Overall Value: |
Excellent |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Excellent |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Excellent |
| Quiet: |
Excellent |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Excellent |
| Parking: |
Good |
| Posted by: |
Rob R. (Posted on October 26, 2007) |
| Overall Value: |
Good |
Oversized Equipped: |
Good |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Good |
| Multi Security: |
Excellent |
Privacy: |
Average |
Pain Medication: |
Average |
| Quiet: |
Very Poor |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Average |
| Parking: |
Good |
| How Selected:
| The bariatric surgeon I choose works with that hospital. |
| Competitors: |
Cedars has a reputation as a very good hospital. But I haven't been a patient in any other hospitals in over 30 years, so I can't really compare it to any others. |
| Comments: |
In general I thought the hospital did a good job during my overnight stay. The staff is quite busy, but that's generally the case in all hospitals I'm aware of. It sometimes took a while for a nurse to come to give me additional pain medication. The rooms are very close together and unfortunately there was a patient in the next room in great pain, who kept me up all night. But I don't fault him for that, he was obviously having a lot of trouble. But it did keep me awake most of the night. |
| Posted by: |
Amanda S. (Posted on October 22, 2007) |
| Overall Value: |
Good |
Oversized Equipped: |
Good |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Excellent |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Good |
| Quiet: |
Excellent |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Good |
| Parking: |
Poor |
| How Selected:
| AT the time, this was the only hospital where Dr. Q was performing bariatric surgeries. He has since begun performing them at St. Joe's in Burbank. |
| Competitors: |
I've been in two other hospitals. It ranks on a par with Valley Presbyterian (a non-teaching hospital) and is far superior to Antelope Valley Hospital. |
| Comments: |
This hospital is top-flight. Their staff was responsive and friendly and they did everything they could to meet my needs quickly and efficiently. They rocked! |
| Posted by: |
Vickie A. (Posted on October 18, 2007) |
| Overall Value: |
Excellent |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Excellent |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Excellent |
| Quiet: |
Good |
Visiting: |
Excellent |
Staff Responsive: |
Excellent |
| Parking: |
Excellent |
| How Selected:
| Center of Excellence. Reputation of Cedars Sinai is excellent. |
| Competitors: |
Modern, up to date, up to date medication. Clean, friendly, team oriented. |
| Comments: |
The nurses, (Elaine in PreOp, Joy, Gayle , Sara, Nancy in PostOp) excellent! Very respectful, knowledgable and were interested in me. Clean hospital, up to date and comfortable. Wish I would've had a wheelchair assist upon discharge, but walking is prescribed anyway after surgery. |
| Posted by: |
Don W. (Posted on October 6, 2007) |
| Overall Value: |
Good |
Oversized Equipped: |
Excellent |
Oversized Sensitive: |
Excellent |
| Multi Security: |
Good |
Privacy: |
Excellent |
Pain Medication: |
Good |
| Quiet: |
Average |
Visiting: |
Good |
Staff Responsive: |
Good |
| Parking: |
Poor |
| How Selected:
| It was selected by my medical group. |
| Competitors: |
Average |
| Comments: |
Obesity wing was great, but heart wing did not know how to handle gastric bypass surgery patient in correct manner. I was transferred here after I was not given needed medication in obesity wing. Big error! by nursing staff!!! |
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