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Building momentum: highlights of the new campus development in 2025

Dec 9, 2025

An artist rendering of the exterior of the new hospital on a winter day, showing snow-covered trees in the foreground. A helicopter is on the helipad on the roof of the building.

As we approach the end of the year and prepare for the next, it’s a great opportunity to pause and reflect on the progress of our new state-of-the-art acute care hospital and academic research centre. 

In 2025, significant progress was made at the site of The Ottawa Hospital’s new campus. Crews have worked throughout the year to prepare the site for the construction of the new hospital. We’ve also made significant progress working with partners to finalize the hospital’s design, cost and construction schedule.   

Here are some of the highlights from the past year.

Construction 

Construction crews have worked throughout the year to prepare the site of the new hospital for utilities and services.  Along with general excavation in different locations throughout the site, this work has included watermain work and the installation of underground piping and manholes for sanitary and stormwater services. This preparatory work is ongoing, and you can get a sense of the scope of this work in this new campus site tour from earlier this year.  

An aerial view of the new campus site showing a portion of the area where the hospital will be located, February 2025. Prince of Wales Drive runs diagonally beside the site at upper left.
An aerial view showing progress at the new campus site, November 2025. The parking garage is at lower left and the location where the hospital will be built is at upper right.

The parking garage is approaching completion with the goal to open next year. This photo taken in January 2025 shows how far we’ve come over the year. See more in this site tour from last winter.

Construction of the west side of the parking garage, January 2025. The lower-left portion is part of the connection that would eventually link both sides of the structure and be built up to connect each floor of the garage. 

Community and staff engagement 

Community stakeholders, Indigenous partners and patient advisors met regularly throughout 2025 to provide feedback on design plans. Key areas informed by these groups include wayfinding, care spaces and indoor and outdoor public spaces. 

More than 350 internal engagement meetings this year brought together staff and physicians from across TOH to review designs from a clinical and organizational perspective and with patient care, safety and experience top of mind.  

In an important step to evaluate and refine clinical spaces, this year we built full-scale mockups of key clinical spaces where staff and physicians conducted simulations of real-world scenarios to test the spaces and provide feedback to the project team.  

Inside the mock endoscopy unit, August 2025. 

The Campaign to Create Tomorrow

Thanks to generous support from across the community and region, The Ottawa Hospital Foundation’s Campaign to Create Tomorrow recently reached $396 million – that’s more than 79% of its $500 million goal. 

Learn more about how TOH is reshaping the future of health care and the role of our new campus in that vision in this video with Cameron Love, President & CEO and Dr. Virginia Roth, Chief of Staff at The Ottawa Hospital.   

Want to learn more about our new campus? Here’s everything you need to know.