Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center

My diagnosis was incorrect and I am being held agents my will like prisoner. This very unprofessional nurse threatened me with officers
To hold me down like cattle and inject me with drugs like I’m in some psych ward. I am being treated like a prisoner and will be filling charges.
Clearly have issues of communication that had put me in a position never to use or recommend
This hospital ever again. I am simply wanting to go home and my rights have been taken from me.
All officers refused to give their names in fluffing the nurse. The level of i professionalism and ego power based control is disgusting and quite frankly mentally ill, nurse Nancy if that is her real name even was the only one willing to give her name but refused to give her last. This experience has traumatized me and made everything I came in hospital for 100 x worse for me. Do not support Cedars Sinai hospital unless you want egressive barbaric medical are.

Top notch medical care, been coming here for year’s. If Ever need anything medical this were you need to be.

As a longtime cancer survivor and hepatic compromised patient most of my life, the care by the experts especially Drs. Tran and Sundarum at Cedars Sinai is Five Stars. I’m alive today because of the Hippocratic Oath inherent in the Cedars Sinai Center for Liver Transplantation and Comprehensive Hematology and Cancer Care Centers. Special kudos to Steven Spielberg for completely funding the children’s pediatric care center, class act there Director extraordinaire! Thank you for continuing to keep me hoping to extend my life and have quality of life and time with my family Cedars Sinai.

I’ve been taking my daughter to Cedars Sinai in West LA for the past 8 years. I don’t live in LA, but when it comes to my child’s health, only the best physicians, nurses, support staff, & lab technicians will do! My daughter was born with a rare blood disorder, unfortunately most doctors in Bako never heard of it let alone treat it! Luckily our Pediatrician, Dr Sykes, knew the best contacts were in LA and sent us immediately to Cedars Sinai. As big as Bakersfield has grown, it still takes several days to order a blood transfusion on a child, Cedars Sinai was able to order one within 1 hour. If you have a child that needs a blood transfusion, you cannot or should NOT have to wait!!!
This hospital is top notch! Everything from valet parking, check ins within 5 minutes with personal escort taking you to whichever department you need to be at. Professional accountability by all staff. Everyone is a greeter at this hospital, custodians, wheel chair attendants, registered nurses & doctors always communicate with you on a first name basis. If your insurance is accepted at Cedars Sinai MC, set yourself up with a specialist and you’ll see the difference. Don’t forget to fuel up at the complimentary coffee– espresso snack bars they have for all patients & patients’ guests on each floor.

This place is ok if your looking for toxic and dangerous cancer treatments.
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Wellness for life:

I couldn’t have been more blessed to be connected to this place. They have the best doctors (particularly in oncology gynecology) and I have been VERY well taken care of here. Tremendously better than any doctor (on the Western Medicine side) has ever treated me before.
The facility is nice! You are processed in and out very quickly (I have never had a long wait here, not even if I was on the early side for my appointment) and the entire staff is pleasant. My oncologist gynecologist, Dr. Walsh and her assistant Jason have been G-​dsend. They are professional with very friendly bedside manner. I have had 2 surgeries with Dr. Walsh and I was terrified just because of what is going on with me and probably a general fear of surgery, but she took care of everything with ease and saved me from having a hysterectomy (though that still may be down the line in quite a few years since my body is working against me.
I will probably be here for a little while longer, if not for much longer for continued care. I am very grateful.

Dr. Essner is a amazing doctor. He is kind and caring. Easy parking near check in. It’s kind of a maze in there… we still get lost, but they have a escort that will take you there. You can even park over night and it’s still 5.00 $. They treat you really good. The nurses and staff go out of their way to help you. This is really a amazing place.

I was sent here for a second opinion before I went under the knife, however I didn’t realize that the hospital I was going specialized in cancer, so already, I’m having an anxiety attack.
Then I stepped in. I’ve seen a lot of doctors in the past two years and this is the first experience I’ve had where they actually felt human and treated me like one, instead of a nameless patient there to provide them a co-​pay or pay a hospital bill.
I was a nervous wreck and they recognized it. Everyone was EXTREMELY pleasant. Everyone. From the front desk, to the doctor (Dr. Andrew Li), to nurse who made sure to cut off my hospital bracelet and released me.
While I don’t recommend the experience of sitting in a hospital waiting to be told whether or not you have cancer, I have to say, if you’re in really good caring hands here.

Worth the drive from the north valley, Wonderful group of employees here. The people are professional, efficient, compassionate and kind

Contrary to misbelief, patients who frequent this area are not necessarily cancer patients. Take me for example, I go frequently to receive chronic blood transfusions for my anemia. Indubitably, I do see patients undergoing chemotherapy and from my experiences, everyone is treated wonderfully here.
First off, I love that I can park my car for hours at a time for only $ 2 (with validation). You enter on Beverly Blvd, near San Vicente. To get the validation, you ask the check in desk and they will be happy to assist you.
Secondly, I love the fact that they provide coffee, tea, and hot chocolate to patients that are in the waiting room. There is a machine in a break room like area where you can choose your beverage of choice. Having that cup of hot chocolate just hits me in the right spot. Time goes by so much faster as you’re sipping that delicious sweetness. It’s not like I usually have to wait too long anyway (usually within half an hour) but that hot cocoa is what makes me look forward to the wait. :)
Lastly, my blood transfusions usually take anywhere from 4 – 5 hours or so and for sure I would get hungry. No worries! The center provides food and beverage for you during your stay. There are choices of sandwiches, soups, smaller snacks, juices, teas, etc. You just need to check off the menu and hand it to a nurse and they will bring you your order. My nurses are always so nice and wonderful at what they do. I really feel comfortable in my visit and going as often as I do, it’s become a welcomed routine.
I have had my fair share of hospital and medical center experiences and I can say without a doubt that this is one of the better ones. Often, I feel that other medical facilities have incompetent employees who are inefficient, but not once did I feel that way here. Scheduling appointments was relatively easy and I don’t remember ever being frustrated with my experience, something that I cannot say for other hospitals. The wait time is not unreasonable when you consider the fact that I’ve waited a full 2 hours before at other hospitals. As a patient, I feel confident to say that I am in good hands, here at the Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars Sinai.

When a friend of mine was diagnosed with a sarcoma in the muscles of one leg, his community of friends, family, colleagues, and kids’ friends’ parents all got organized in this amazing way to get him what he needed. Since a lot of what he needed was rides to Cedars-​Sinai for radiation and chemo, I’ve had the pleasure of taking him and hanging out with him during a couple of treatments.
I say «pleasure», because thankfully, after all this hell is over, he’s going to be just fine.
But I also say «pleasure», because the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute has such helpful and caring people working there!
The Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute has a separate small parking lot, just for the patients who are undergoing treatment and their loved ones.
That’s right — no dealing with the crazy Cedars parking situation!
You pull a ticket, and at the end of your visit (no matter now long) you get validated and only have to pay the parking attendant $ 2 total. (They offer valet, but I self-​park, so I don’t know if the valet is extra)
We pull up in the front, and there’s always at least one or two of the friendly attendants there to bring us a wheelchair and help my friend out of the car and into it.
While I park (always empty spots to be had), they blab about stuff, and then we get escorted directly to where check-​in for appointments is. Every attendant knows the drill, so you never have to wander around the maze that is Cedars, hoping to run into someone who knows something. We get PERSONAL escorts — and my friend gets wheeled around every single time!
My friend says that appointment times here are really loose — so that if you’re running late, you don’t have to stress about it at all. If you’re coming here, stressing about teeny things like being late is the last place you want to expend your energy — and they totally get that.
The waiting area has a GORGEOUS giant reef tank with tropical salt water fish. There’s always bowls of fresh fruit and napkins around, as well as volunteers who ask if anyone needs anything (fruit, juice, sandwich?) within minutes of you showing up.
The next escort takes you to another office (depending on your treatment type) where there are similarly friendly faces, snacks, magazines, and lovely artwork. In fact, the new waiting area (opening just this week) has a SUPER COOL double projectored artwork that moves, playing on one giant wall!
We happened to see the artist herself today, taking pictures of her finished work. Today, the picture was flowers, but in the future I feel plans for moving fish — aquarium-​style.
When your appointment is done, you again get an escort to make sure you get your parking ticket validated and your next appointment (s) set, and you get walked all the way back to the front of the building where you started.
Along the way, you can’t help but notice thoughtful posted notes that urge people who are suffering from even mild cold or flu symptoms to please come back when they are well, as people in this wing have compromised immune systems. They even have thoughtfully placed Kleenex boxes and hand sanitizer.
My friend has gotten to know a lot of the volunteer and paid escorts, as well as the doctors, nurses and reception staff during his many visits over the last several months, and he’s developed some really special relationships.
One of these days, very soon, he’s going to WALK INTO this wing and say thank you from the top of all of 6’4″-ish tall of him!

Highly recommended if you have to go to a cancer center. Everyone is helpful and sincerely caring. Dr. Ilana Cass is the best doctor and most knowledgeable in her field.

minus one star for having to have cancer to go here.
i cannot recommend the CSCCC enough. Dr. Ilana Cass changed my whole perspective on shit. honestly, never have i met a more compassionate, honest, and trustworthy doctor (and i am one. kinda.) the nurses and PAs here are friendly and positive, but also sensitive and helpful. They never make you feel sick, or wierd for playing many many hands of gin rummy with your mom while waiting. There are also killer fish tanks, a coffee machine, current magazines, and recliners in the waiting rooms.
bonus: across the street from the beverly center AND jerry’s deli.