It’s not often that a hospital is as famous as the celebrities it treats, but Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, nestled between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, is where Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor died, Kate Hudson was born and has given birth, and Britney Spears was taken after a very public meltdown. It’s where Patrick Swayze fought pancreatic cancer, Madonna had hernia surgery and Victoria Beckham welcomed daughter Harper into the world. And last week, it opened its first outpost outside the US, in London.
The capital’s clinic is as swish as you’d expect: a four-storey townhouse on New Cavendish Street, private consultation rooms with an air of quiet luxury (the impossibly chic furniture is by Cattelan Italia) and on-site diagnostics including DEXA, ultrasound and ECHO scanning, plus access to specialist physicians back in Los Angeles. Its arrival in the capital was marked by a starry champagne reception at the Wallace Collection.
