What fictional hospital employs Dr. House in the television series House?

Dr. House works at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in House.

The hospital is the principal setting for the series and provides the institutional backdrop for its diagnostic cases. House leads the hospital’s Department of Diagnostic Medicine, where he and his fellows investigate illnesses that other doctors have failed to identify.

Princeton-Plainsboro is fictional, but the series places it in Princeton, New Jersey. The name combines the real New Jersey communities of Princeton and Plainsboro, helping the setting sound like a plausible regional teaching hospital.

Viewers sometimes mistake it for a real hospital because the show uses realistic medical terminology and filmed exterior shots associated with Princeton University. Those images do not establish a real hospital by that name; Princeton-Plainsboro exists within the fictional world of House.