2017 Report to the Community
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HERE AND Report to the Community | 2017 NOW LEADERSHIP CONTENTS MESSAGE Leadership Message 1 crucial neighborhood caregivers. When added Patient Care 2 to our longstanding partnerships with local schools, homeless shelters and other community Research 16 organizations, we are doing more than ever to It all began with the spark of an idea. In aid all those who need quality healthcare. Community 1902, a growing Los Angeles community was Outreach 30 struggling to get quality healthcare, so a group Meanwhile, locally and throughout the nation, of civic leaders came together to create the consumers, payers and employers are asking for Education 38 the forerunner of Cedars-Sinai, the 12-bed better coordination of care to help people get Kaspare Cohn Hospital in the Angelino Heights and stay healthy, ensure that patients always The Campaign neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles. get the right amount of care and help keep for Cedars-Sinai 44 healthcare affordable for all. You will see many Much has changed in medicine and healthcare examples in this report of how Cedars-Sinai is The Numbers 52 over the past 115 years, yet Cedars-Sinai is still pioneering new ways to provide healthcare that driven every day by the same fundamental is not only of the highest quality, but also has Where We Are 54 question: “What does the community need?” the value and efficiency that the public wants. Leadership 2016 56 One of our top priorities today is to respond Throughout these pages, you also will see to the demand for more accessible, convenient how our pioneering biomedical research and healthcare. As a result, we have been expanding education programs are training the healthcare our geographic reach in a variety of ways — professionals of tomorrow. And you will learn establishing new Cedars-Sinai outpatient how the support of community donors is facilities closer to where people live and work; essential to our ability to continue meeting our acquiring and affiliating with outstanding region’s needs for years to come. physician groups, community hospitals and outpatient surgical centers; and developing With your help, Cedars-Sinai continues innovative partnerships with other organizations. to evolve as we address the complex and changing healthcare needs of one of the most We also are meeting community needs by helping diverse regions in the nation. We are grateful to improve the health of our region’s underserved. have the support of people and organizations Cedars-Sinai’s Community Clinics Initiative, for who share our longstanding dedication to the example, expands our partnerships with these people of Los Angeles. VERA GUERIN THOMAS M. PRISELAC Chair, Board of Directors President and CEO CEDARS-SINAI 1 PATIENT CARE HERE: Physicians, nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals are committed to providing the best care to every patient, from primary to specialized care for complex and advanced diseases. NOW: 886 LICENSED BEDS 254,668 PATIENT DAYS 242,112 PATIENTS CARED FOR BY CEDARS‑SINAI MEDICAL NETWORK 2,758 NURSES 2,156 MEDICAL STAFF CEDARS-SINAI 3 REDUCED MEDICATION PRESIDENTIAL PREPARED PATIENT CARE READMISSIONS LITERACY ZERO TOLERANCE TOP EMPLOYER EQUITABLE CARE PRECISION FOR EBOLA By strengthening Cedars-Sinai is Using a systematic Forbes ranked The Human Rights Cedars-Sinai The U.S. Department Cedars-Sinai clinical support for enhancing patient method of strict Cedars-Sinai as Campaign Foundation was among 40 of Health and Human vulnerable patients safety after discharge adherence to a one of the nation’s recognized Cedars- organizations selected Services tapped has expanded during and after by using a novel set of evidence-based best places to Sinai as a leader in by the White House Cedars-Sinai to transitions to skilled method to assess the protocols, Cedars- work, garnering the LGBT healthcare to participate in a become part of a services across nursing facilities, medication literacy of Sinai surgical teams institution a top spot equality. The Precision Medicine network of 10 regional the Cedars-Sinai vulnerable patients. developed best on the magazine’s foundation is the Initiative Summit in centers prepared multiple Enhanced Care Patients leaving the practices covering the 2016 list of America’s educational arm of Washington, D.C. The to treat Ebola. The Program significantly hospital with new entire care process Best Employers. the Human Rights event brought together designation means locations, reduced the rate of prescriptions may for every hip- and The health system Campaign, the medical researchers, Cedars-Sinai will hospital readmissions. not fully understand knee-replacement also earned the 2016 country’s largest clinicians, community play a critical role making it The program plays how to take their surgery. Surgical-site Workplace of the lesbian, gay, bisexual advocates and others in bolstering the a critical role in safe medications, and the infections in bones or Year Award from and transgender from around the nation’s front-line easier for more care transitions, with risk of drug-related joints after orthopedic The Advisory Board (LGBT) civil rights country to mark the defenses against nurse practitioners problems rises during surgeries can lead Company. On the organization. The one-year anniversary highly communicable people to access closely monitoring such transitions in to readmissions, Forbes list, Cedars- findings were part of the initiative’s diseases. As a patients through care. Nurses follow up longer hospital stays, Sinai ranked 87th of the foundation’s launch. It featured designated Ebola coordinated, regularly scheduled post-discharge with prolonged antibiotic among institutions Healthcare Equality remarks from President assessment hospital, rounds in skilled the patients at highest therapy, reduced with more than 5,000 Index 2016, an Barack Obama, patient Cedars-Sinai is quality care nursing facilities. These risk to make sure they mobility, intensive employees, based annual survey that stories, and roundtable committed to nurses serve as an are taking the right rehabilitation and on an independent encourages equal care discussions to build maintaining its “always close to home. extra layer of support medication at the right higher healthcare survey of 30,000 U.S. for LGBT Americans momentum and ready” status, and for patients as well as dose at the right time. costs. Although the employees who work by evaluating inclusive collaborations around held an extensive drill liaisons between the In addition, Cedars- incidence of such for large companies policies and practices precision medicine to prepare medical facility, physicians and Sinai pharmacists infections at Cedars- and institutions, for patients, visitors efforts. Cedars-Sinai staff to receive family members. They review medication lists Sinai already meets including U.S. divisions and employees. Precision Health, suspected Ebola focus on enhancing for high-risk patients national benchmarks, of international firms. Cedars-Sinai earned a partnership of patients. Cedars-Sinai coordination of and call them within the medical center The Advisory Board top marks in meeting scientists, clinicians constantly updates its care and preventing 72 hours. The pilot aimed to reduce the Company award nondiscrimination and industry, launched readiness protocols medical complications. phase was so effective rate to zero — and keep recognizes top- and training criteria in September 2016. by learning from other In addition, dedicated that the method it there. The Orthopedic performing hospitals that demonstrate The goal of the regional centers and pharmacists ensure is being expanded Surgical-Site Infection and health systems its commitment to partnership is to drive with data received patients leave the to reach high-risk Bundle includes nationwide for equitable care for development of the from the few hospitals hospital with clear and patients throughout steps such as testing outstanding employee LGBT patients and newest technology that already have updated medication the medical center. for the common engagement, their families. and best research, treated Ebola patients. lists. The Enhanced infectious bacterium and Cedars-Sinai coupled with the finest Care Program has Staphylococcus was among just clinical practice, to drawn national aureus and measures 20 organizations rapidly deliver precise Cedars-Sinai now operates attention for its to maintain a receiving the honor. and personalized primary and urgent care innovative care model. sterile environment healthcare solutions to locations in Culver City, as well throughout surgery. Cedars-Sinai patients. as Marina Del Rey Hospital. 4 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY 2016 CEDARS-SINAI 5 NEW HEART CALIFORNIA TRANSPLANT ORTHOPEDIC ANTIBIOTIC REHABILITATION CULTURAL PATIENT CARE MARINA MEDICINE RECORD STRETCHES BEST PRACTICES INSTITUTE OPENS HONOR ROLL COMPETENCE Cedars-Sinai With 132 adult heart Formerly a section To enhance patient Cedars-Sinai, U.S. News & World The Institute for Cedars-Sinai operates Marina transplants performed of the Department of safety, improve UCLA Health and Report’s Best Diversity in Health Del Rey Hospital as in 2015, the Cedars- Surgery, orthopedics outcomes and combat Select Medical Hospitals 2016 – 17 Management named performed the part of a continuing Sinai Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has the global threat partnered to open named Cedars-Sinai Cedars-Sinai an Equity commitment to topped its own record achieved record clinical of drug-resistant the largest acute to its Honor