In House, M.D., what fictional hospital employs Dr. Gregory House and his diagnostic teams?

In House, M.D., Dr. Gregory House works at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.

The hospital is the main workplace in the series and provides the setting for House’s Department of Diagnostic Medicine. Patients arrive with unusual or unexplained symptoms, and House’s team investigates them through differential diagnosis, tests, consultations, and treatment. The institution is presented as a teaching hospital in New Jersey, which explains its combination of medical training, research, and complex cases.

Princeton-Plainsboro is fictional, although the show uses recognizable features of real American teaching hospitals. Exterior shots for the hospital were filmed at the Frist Campus Center at Princeton University, while many interior scenes were produced on sets. This sometimes leads viewers to associate the hospital directly with Princeton University, but the fictional institution is not a real hospital there.

The hospital’s name is often shortened by characters and viewers to “PPTH.” It remains the central institutional setting throughout the series, even as administrators, doctors, and diagnostic-team members change.