Steven Valentine, Chair
Mr. Valentine is the President of Valentine Health Advisers a management consulting company serving the health care industry. With over 45 years of health care experience, he is a leading thinker, author and speaker on health care trends and developing strategies to succeed in this difficult environment. He has worked in over 35 states across the country, specializing in strategy, transactions, and board governance. He co-authors the Top Ten Trends in Healthcare for the Governance Institute (over 15 years). He has worked with academic medical centers, health systems, hospitals of all sizes and ownership structures.
Additionally, he has worked with various physician organizations, health networks, RHCs, FQHCs and ambulatory deliver systems. He serves as the Past-Chair of Orthopaedic Institute for Children, past-member of the Northridge Hospital Medical Center, and currently serves on the Advisory Board for Partners in Care Foundation (a think tank for new delivery models using SDOH). He has been interviewed by Los Angeles Business Journal, NPR, Modern Healthcare, Los Angeles Times, Health Leader’s magazine, Hospitals magazine, HFMA Finance Journal and many more.
He was the President of The Camden Group for 23 years and grew the business to a national healthcare consulting company with five offices throughout the country and managed to have the Company ranked in Modern Healthcare’s consulting companies (top 20 for 15 years and top 10 for the last three). He was the Vice President of consulting services at Premier Inc. and ran the West Coast consulting services. Served as a national adviser to Guidehouse Consulting in their health care strategy practice. Mr. Valentine has authored over 100 articles and four books in his career.
He earned a BS from San Diego State University graduating with Distinction, and a MPA in Health Sciences from the University of Southern California and completed the Ernst & Young Executive Management Program at Northwestern University.