Ms. Bales is a senior vice president at The Camden Group specializing in healthcare business appraisals and financial planning. She is responsible for the financial services division of The Camden Group which focuses on healthcare business valuations, fairness opinions, compliance, hospital turnaround management, financial modeling, and business planning. Many of her engagements involve tax-exempt organizations that are developing or dissolving new services, entities, or relationships.
Ms. Bales is an Accredited Senior Appraiser in the American Society of Appraisers and a member of the Institute of Business Appraisers and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. She has taught the graduate course in Health Care Finance in the Health Services Administration Program at the University of Southern California. She has also given lectures at the Health Care Compliance Association National Institute on "Fair Market Value in Compliance Arrangements" and for the California Hospital Association on "Fair Market Value in Physician Compensation" regarding Stark II in the fall of 2004.
Ms. Bales recently re-joined The Camden Group after serving as chief financial officer of the Good Samaritan Hospital, an independent non-profit hospital in Los Angeles. Prior to her work at Good Samaritan, she was with The Camden Group for four years. Prior to joining The Camden Group, Ms. Bales was a senior manager with KPMG Peat Marwick's National Health Care Strategy Practice. She was chief financial officer at the University of Arizona Medical Center and assistant administrator at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center before joining KPMG Peat Marwick.
Ms. Bales is an Accredited Senior Appraiser in the American Society of Appraisers and a member of the Institute of Business Appraisers and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. She has taught the graduate course in Health Care Finance in the Health Services Administration Program at the University of Southern California. She has also given lectures at the Health Care Compliance Association National Institute on "Fair Market Value in Compliance Arrangements" and for the California Hospital Association on "Fair Market Value in Physician Compensation" regarding Stark II in the fall of 2004.
Ms. Bales recently re-joined The Camden Group after serving as chief financial officer of the Good Samaritan Hospital, an independent non-profit hospital in Los Angeles. Prior to her work at Good Samaritan, she was with The Camden Group for four years. Prior to joining The Camden Group, Ms. Bales was a senior manager with KPMG Peat Marwick's National Health Care Strategy Practice. She was chief financial officer at the University of Arizona Medical Center and assistant administrator at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center before joining KPMG Peat Marwick.
Ms. Bales holds a bachelor's degree from Purdue University and a master's degree in health services administration from the University of Southern California.
Email: rbales@thecamdengroup.com