Cedars-Sinai

**About Us** Cedars-Sinai is a nonprofit academic healthcare organization serving the diverse Los Angeles community and beyond. With pioneering medical research achievements, education programs defining the future of healthcare and wide-ranging community benefit activities, we’re setting new standards for quality and innovation in patient care. Growing With Los Angeles It began in 1902 as a 12?bed hospital in the Angelino Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Today, Cedars-Sinai serves more than 1 million people each year in over 40 locations, with more than 4,500 physicians and nurses and 1,500 research projects in motion. What never changes is our commitment to be a blessing for those in need. **Our Mission, Vision and Values** **Cedars-Sinai Mission Statement** As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve. - We deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education - We prioritize high?quality care for all with equity and compassion - We transform biomedical discoveries and innovations for better health - We educate tomorrow’s physicians, nurses, researchers, and healthcare professionals Our mission is founded in the Judaic tradition, which inspires our devotion to the art and science of healing. **Vision** Trusted and respected worldwide, Cedars?Sinai will advance health and healthcare in Los Angeles and beyond. **Our Values** We hold ourselves accountable to these values: - **Excellence:** We seek always to be the best and to bring out the best in each of our colleagues, and to nurture a culture that delivers excellent clinical quality, patient safety, service, and discovery. - **Integrity:** We earn trust and respect by acting in every circumstance with knowledge, honesty, discretion, and fairness. - **Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:** We celebrate the richness of human diversity in an inclusive environment in which all stakeholders participate to build a better future. - **Respect:** We recognize and treat each person and ourselves with dignity and honor. - **Compassion:** We treat each other and those we serve with kindness and understanding. - **Teamwork:** We honor and value the special skill that each colleague brings to our work together. We learn from each other and from our patients and their families. - **Innovation:** Our purpose is to heal. We will always seek new means to advance this purpose, with imagination and enthusiasm for new ideas and methods. - **Accessibility:** Our duty is to improve access to the healthcare we provide and to continuously extend this care to the communities we serve. - **Affordability:** We are committed to providing quality healthcare to everyone in the community who needs it and to constantly improve our effectiveness and efficiency. - **Stewardship:** We are thoughtful champions of the resources under our responsibility, to ensure their best and highest use to advance our mission.