In what fictional New Jersey hospital is House M.D. primarily set?

House M.D. is primarily set at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. The hospital is the workplace where Gregory House and his diagnostic team investigate complex cases.

Princeton-Plainsboro is presented as a teaching hospital, allowing the series to combine specialist medicine, resident training, hospital administration, and research. Many storylines move between House’s diagnostic department, the emergency room, clinics, and other hospital facilities.

The name combines Princeton and Plainsboro, two real New Jersey municipalities near the show’s fictional setting. The hospital itself is not a real institution, although the series used real locations and studio sets to create its interiors. The facility is sometimes shortened in dialogue to Princeton-Plainsboro or PPTH.