How Cameron Love is reshaping the future of health care for our community
Posted on Monday, June 2nd, 2025
As the President and CEO of The Ottawa Hospital, Cameron Love is committed to reshaping the future of health care to better serve the
Ottawa community. This means not just improving existing systems but reimagining health care models from the ground up and meeting 21st century expectations with 21st century ideas, technologies and values.
“We’re doing our best to drive innovation on many different fronts while we also remain committed to our core vision: that each patient should receive the world-class care, exceptional service and compassion that our staff would want for their own loved ones,” said Love.
Love explained that The Ottawa Hospital is at the forefront of medical science and patient experience innovation, and that, as one of the largest academic hospitals in Canada, it is using the most advanced tools and technologies to train the next generation of medical practitioners, researchers and leaders. He also emphasized that The Ottawa Hospital is currently building a new state-of-the-art 2.5 million square-foot campus on Carling Avenue which, when it opens, will provide 6,000 full-time jobs in health care.
Having worked at The Ottawa Hospital for close to 30 years, Love still finds the work he does tremendously rewarding. He worked his way up through the ranks and filled many different roles over the years, so much so that today he knows a remarkable number of the hospital’s 17,000 doctors, nurses, staff and volunteers by name.
Love emphasized that highly trained health care professionals are a key to our health care ecosystem, and that Algonquin College plays a valuable role in helping The Ottawa Hospital maintain its deserved status as one of Canada’s best hospitals.
“Having a partner that continues to educate health care professionals regardless of the stage they are at in their career is incredibly important,” Love said. “The ability to collaborate to ensure health care workers can be recredentialed and retrained has become increasingly valuable as the competition for talent increases and more and more new technologies come online.”
Love said there are an enormous number of Algonquin College grads working at The Ottawa Hospital, and that he has noticed over the years that collectively their professionalism, skill and values align well with the needs and expectations of the institution.
“There is a very tight relationship between education and health care, and Algonquin College is a major player in terms of our education infrastructure in this community,” said Love. “We need organizations like Algonquin that continue to keep the pace of expanding and growing and training future health care professionals to help us grow. Some of the best letters I’ve ever received are about graduates from Algonquin.”
Love emphasizes the importance of a strong employee pipeline. “I can build a thousand buildings, but if we don’t have staff, we can’t run health care.”
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