1. Organ Transplants at Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and the Third Industrial Revolution
- Author:
- Oenone Kubie, Christopher McKenna, and Steven Yamshon
- Publication Date:
- 08-2017
- Content Type:
- Case Study
- Institution:
- Oxford Centre for Global History
- Abstract:
- Cedars Sinai Hospital does not serve an everyday clientele. Situated in the West Hollywood neighbourhood in Los Angeles, the non-profit hospital caters to the rich and glamourous – a ‘hospital to the stars’. It was there that Madonna received hernia surgery and Frank Sinatra suffered a fatal heart attack. More recently, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West chose the hospital for the birth of their daughter. However, the hospital is famous for more than its celebrity patients. Cedars Sinai has a history of innovation and has often sought to be a world leader of medical research. In 2010, Tom Priselac, the long-time Chief Executive Officer of the Cedars Sinai Health System was presented with the opportunity to add to this history of innovation and establish a prestigious center for heart transplants at Cedars Sinai. To do so would position Cedars Sinai at the forefront of cardiac research. On the other hand, to establish the specialisation would require a huge investment which Priselac might better use elsewhere in the medical center. The decision required Priselac to consider the competitiveness of the hospital within the Los Angeles healthcare landscape, the logic of creating a specialisation, and the future of healthcare within a global economy.
- Topic:
- Health Care Policy, Capitalism, and Global Political Economy
- Political Geography:
- United States, California, and Los Angeles