In House M.D., which New Jersey hospital employs Gregory House as its head of diagnostic medicine?

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

The fictional teaching hospital is the main workplace in the series and is located in Princeton, New Jersey. House leads its Department of Diagnostic Medicine, where his team investigates unusually complex cases that other doctors have been unable to solve.

Princeton-Plainsboro is presented as a large academic medical center, allowing the show to combine specialist medicine, research, teaching, and hospital politics. The name is fictional, although the series used real medical terminology and drew inspiration from actual teaching hospitals.

Viewers sometimes confuse the hospital with Princeton University or assume that it is a real New Jersey institution. It is not the same as Princeton University Medical Center, a real healthcare organization. The hospital’s fictional setting gives the writers freedom to create departments, cases, and institutional conflicts around House’s team.