Dancing Again: Patient Jeanie Sewell
When North Hollywood resident Jeanie Sewell was dealing with a lot of arthritis pain in her hip and looking for a doctor to perform a hip replacement, it was an easy decision. Her ...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Sep 21, 2020
Papa Chu Pulls Through: ICU Nurse's Dad Shares COVID-19 Story
When their colleague's dad fell ill with COVID-19, Cedars-Sinai ICU nurses rallied around "Papa Chu" during his long bout with the virus. His recovery showed that there was still h...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Sep 18, 2020
Latinos in Medicine
Latinos make up nearly 40% of the population of California, but when it comes time to go to the doctor's office, they rarely see a physician of the same background. We sat down wit...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Sep 15, 2020
A Giving Mission: Cedars-Sinai Community Benefit Program
A healthy community is a thriving community. That's one of the guiding principles behind Cedars-Sinai's Community Benefit program, which offers a variety of assistance programs and...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Aug 26, 2020
Faces of Cedars-Sinai: Food and Nutrition Services Supervisor ...
Food and Nutrition Services supervisor Eva Lukacs has worked at Cedars-Sinai for 32 years. We talked to Eva about the surprising way she began her career at Cedars-Sinai, what she'...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Aug 24, 2020
Cultural Challenges of Organ Donation
After six years, Patrick Han found a match for a donor kidney. But without the eligibility in a special Cedars-Sinai transplant program, his wait may have been considerably longer ...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Aug 19, 2020
Faces of Cedars-Sinai: Shawn Estebo, RN
Post-Anesthesia Care Unit nurse Shawn Estebo usually works where patients go to recover from surgery. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, he volunteered to work in the ICU with s...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Aug 17, 2020
Pairs That Share
Olufunke Ojuri hardly told anyone that she was sick, not even her sister. Eventually, she couldn't hide it anymore. That conversation was the start of a remarkable journey, that ch...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Aug 07, 2020
Healthcare Heroes: Pharmacy Services
With increased demand due to COVID-19, the Cedars-Sinai healthcare heroes on the pharmacy team have adapted quickly to meet the needs of some of the most critical patients to accom...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Aug 06, 2020
Faces of Cedars-Sinai: Lactation Consultant Barbara Plowden
For 20 years, Barbara Plowden has been helping new moms at get comfortable with breastfeeding in the lactation program for Cedars-Sinai NICU babies and mothers. We chatted with her...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Aug 03, 2020
Faces of Cedars-Sinai: Environmental Services Technician Chris...
Meet Christoffer Smith, an Environmental Services technician at Cedars-Sinai. With the COVID-19 pandemic keeping patients safe is underscored by the role of EVS technicians. We cau...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Jul 27, 2020
A Positive Outcome: Donating Plasma After COVID-19
Isolated at home after a positive COVID-19 test, Jesse Erdek pored over articles and scientific studies about the effects of convalescent plasma as a potential treatment and felt a...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Jul 24, 2020
Faces of Cedars-Sinai: Karen Reckamp, MD
Meet Dr. Karen Reckamp, director of medical oncology in the Department of Medicine, associate director of clinical research for the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute and...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Jul 22, 2020
Faces of Cedars-Sinai: Heidi High, Director of Patient Flow an...
Meet Heidi High, director of Patient Flow and Capacity Management at Cedars-Sinai. While front line healthcare providers focus on the patients, Heidi and her team in the Capacity C...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Jul 15, 2020
Faces of Cedars-Sinai: Dr. Moise Danielpour, Pediatric Neurosu...
Meet Dr. Moise Danielpour, pediatric neurosurgeon at Cedars-Sinai! He performs complex surgical procedures on some of our youngest patients. He's also involved in research that cou...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Jul 13, 2020
