What is the fictional New Jersey hospital where House M.D. is mainly set?

House M.D. is mainly set at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.

The hospital provides the series with its central workplace and connects the diagnostic team to the wider medical staff. House leads a specialized diagnostic department there, taking on patients whose symptoms have resisted ordinary explanations or treatment.

Princeton-Plainsboro is fictional, but the series uses a recognizable New Jersey setting. The show was filmed largely in California, with the campus of Princeton University used for exterior shots representing the hospital. This helped create the impression that the story took place in New Jersey while production remained based in Los Angeles.

Viewers sometimes mistake Princeton-Plainsboro for a real hospital because the name sounds like an institutional merger of Princeton and Plainsboro. In the show, however, it is a fictional teaching hospital created for the series.