Becky Palmer

With over 30 years of nursing experience, and almost 20 years of senior executive experience—including with FNHA, BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital—Becky Palmer is a dynamic, collaborative, and respected senior executive health care leader in B.C.

Becky has a PhD in Nursing from UBC, a Master's in Nursing and Nurse Midwife from the University of Alberta as well as numerous professional awards and distinctions. She has a passion for strategic compassionate leadership, learning, professional practice/policy, coaching, quality, and systems transformation in academic and health care organizations and systems. Becky is an internationally recognized professional with extensive experience leading change within complex and transformative systems. She has a proven track record of leading high-performing teams, achieving strategic goals and redesigning systems for optimal outcomes.​

B.C.'s health care sector is facing new and unprecedented challenges as we emerge into a post-COVID world. Providence is moving forward as an organization with a visionary strategic plan for the future, which includes focusing on people through health care redesign, staff recruitment and retention, professional development, staff wellness and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. In this transformational role for Providence, Becky oversees an integrated portfolio, i.e. human resources, nursing and professional practice, and play a key role in creating innovative solutions to deal with the changing dynamics in health care, while embracing quality, safety, inclusivity and professional excellence in a continuously learning environment for staff. This includes the planning, delivery and implementation of information systems used in both the clinical and people services environment, ensuring that we adopt and enhance clinical and human resources information systems.​