Cedars-Sinai’s COO: Leading staff from ‘traumatized’ to a post-pandemic comeback

Jeffrey Smith, MD, executive vice president of hospital operations and COO for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, is placing the wellness of his staff and physicians at the top of his 2022 agenda. “We’re all kind of traumatized,” he told Becker’s in January. But the Southern California health system is far from slowing down. Dr. Smith discussed plans for the new Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s Center and the organization’s continued focus on the maternal-fetal mortality crisis affecting minorities.