About Women’s Guild: Inspiring Innovation

Whether we’re raising funds or spending time together, we dynamic women know what we are doing, love what we are doing, and believe in what we are doing. - Lorette Gross, Women’s Guild President

Women’s Guild is dedicated to supporting patient care, vital medical programs and equipment, biomedical research, and education at Cedars-Sinai.

Our organization began with a desire to celebrate life. In 1957, 18 friends gathered to knit booties for newborns at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. In time, their nurturing impulse grew into a passion for supporting scientific brilliance.

We have evolved from this intimate knitting circle to a group 1,500 strong that has partnered with Cedars-Sinai to fight lung disease, women’s heart disease, breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, and more.

Cedars-Sinai provides the most advanced patient care, conducts innovative research that leads to new therapies for a broad spectrum of diseases, and trains our future healthcare providers. Our support helps accelerate progress in all these areas.

For more than 50 years, we’ve been dedicated to Cedars-Sinai’s development as a leading hospital for the Los Angeles community and as a world-class institution. By inspiring innovation that improves outcomes for patients, we continue to celebrate life.

Lorette Gross
Lorette Gross