We re-launched the awards program with a focus on labour relations and human resource practices that is more consistent with our core mandate.

We know how important it is to provide safe, supportive, equitable, inclusive, and rewarding work environments, both in support of recruitment and retention efforts, as well as to provide working conditions that allow our frontline health care professionals to provide world-class health care services to BC residents.

The human resource and labour relations professionals who work in the BC health sector are critical to building the positive and collaborative relationships that are necessary to achieve this aim.

Building safe, healthy, and supportive work environments requires employers, employees, and unions to work together, and we will see a pattern of collaboration in the work of teams and individuals receiving awards today.

Honeybees are industrious and cooperative creatures known for working together in pursuit of a common goal, and, like the HR and LR professionals we are recognizing today, their work has impact well beyond their own hive.

Bees are important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables, taking the pollen and nectar from plants back to their hives and storing it in the honeycomb. This work supports their own well-being and lifecycle, but it also plays an essential role in maintaining the health of ecosystems and supporting biodiversity. Through their work, HR and LR professionals support the creation of healthy workplace ecosystems that support the delivery of high-quality care.

For these reasons, we thought the industrious, collaborative, and essential honeybee was a good symbol and metaphor for our refreshed awards program.

1. Leading Workplace Health and Safety Practices
2. Leading Human Resource and/or Labour Relations Practices
3. Leading Practices: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

Visit the Categories section for further info.

Nominees must work for or on behalf of an HEABC member organization either as a permanent or contract employee. This includes physicians and other medical and non-medical staff not directly employed by the HEABC member employer, but working within their facility/facilities and providing care or support to people in the region.

Eligible

• Nurses, care aides, physicians, allied health professionals, administrators
• Human resources professionals, support staff, maintenance workers and many, many others
• Permanent/contract employees not necessarily directly employed by the HEABC member employer but working on behalf of them

Not eligible

• Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and members of the executive team of HEABC member organizations (i.e., the most senior leader in an organization)

See the full nomination rules and regulations within the Nomination Criteria section.

Yes! Have a look at How to Submit a Winning Nomination Guide for tips and tricks.

We do! Visit the Nominate section and download the Word template for your chosen category.

Winners are selected by an independent panel of community, academic and business leaders and we are very grateful for their support and contributions!

• Hand-crafted ornament* and framed certificates
• Two tickets to the awards presentation 
• Public recognition at the presentation
• Travel expenses and one night’s hotel accommodation to attend the awards presentation* 
• Profile and recognition in HEABC's website and publications. 

* does not apply to Award of Merit recipients

You sure can! Contact Jacqueline.Wong@heabc.bc.ca to express your interest!

Previous sponsors have included PBC, HBT, Boyden, Doctors of BC, Roper Greyell and George & Bell to name a few.

Absolutely! The BC Health Care Awards website still exists at bchealthcareawards.ca. Here you will find historical information on all of our awards recipients from 2007 to 2020.