Myrtle Roy · Healthcare Operations Executive · Keynote Speaker
Healthcare doesn't need more leadership frameworks.
It needs leaders who've actually run the systems.
Myrtle Roy is a healthcare operations executive with more than two decades of experience — from the emergency department floor to regional multi-site leadership across Northern Virginia. She began her career as a commissioned officer in the New Mexico Army National Guard's Medical Service Corps, a foundation that shaped the accountability standards and operational discipline she has brought to every role since. She consults with health system leaders, speaks to professional forums, and writes on the operational realities that most healthcare conversations avoid.
Three ways to engage
Speaking
Keynotes and sessions for healthcare organizations, leadership forums, and professional associations. Five topic areas, one signature talk.
Insights
Long-form writing on the operational and leadership challenges shaping healthcare delivery — published here and on LinkedIn.
Consulting
Healthcare operations engagements for health system executives - access strategy, multi-site performance, workforce accountability, and operational governance.
The perspective that comes from having done the work
Myrtle Roy's career begins with eight years of commissioned service in the New Mexico Army National Guard, Medical Service Corps — a formative chapter that established the accountability standards and precision she has carried into every clinical and executive role since. From there: more than two decades of bedside nursing across medical-surgical, telemetry, emergency, and trauma settings, followed by a senior regional leadership role overseeing multi-site urgent care and ambulatory operations across Northern Virginia.
That combination is uncommon. Most operations executives have never worked a clinical shift. Most clinicians have never had P&L accountability for a multi-site network. Myrtle has done both — and the thread running through all of it is the same standard she learned in uniform: that performance expectations are not aspirational. They are the floor.
She is also CEO and co-founder of Evidentia Legal Nursing Group, a clinical case review practice. The work sits at the intersection of clinical standards and operational accountability, two subjects she has spent a career on from the inside.
"Healthcare doesn't fail at the bedside. It fails in the decisions made three levels above it."
"Healthcare doesn't fail at the bedside. It fails in the decisions made three levels above it."
Operational track record
Standardized clinical and operational workflows across a multi-site urgent care region, reducing variability in access, throughput, and patient experience.
Led access and throughput optimization across a Northern Virginia ambulatory network during sustained high-demand periods, expanding visit capacity without additional facilities.
Supported health system growth through new site openings, market densification, and operational readiness planning.
Implemented regional performance governance and executive reporting aligned with enterprise priorities and board accountability expectations.
Maintained regulatory readiness and quality performance through periods of rapid growth and workforce pressure.
Also: Evidentia Legal Nursing Group
Myrtle is CEO and co-founder of Evidentia Legal Nursing Group, a clinical case review practice providing standard-of-care analysis and medical record review for counsel in medically complex matters.
The work keeps her close to the clinical documentation, governance, and accountability standards she writes and speaks about; the same standards that determine whether a health system's operations hold under pressure.
Ready to talk?
For consulting engagements, speaking inquiries, media requests, or professional connection — reach out directly. Myrtle reads her own messages.