What is the name of House’s fictional New Jersey hospital in House M.D.?

House’s fictional New Jersey hospital in House M.D. is Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.

The hospital is the principal setting for the series and employs House, James Wilson, Lisa Cuddy, and the diagnostic teams. Its teaching-hospital status allows the story to combine difficult cases, specialist consultations, medical students, research, and administrative conflicts. House’s department investigates patients whose illnesses have resisted ordinary diagnosis.

Princeton-Plainsboro is fictional, but the program’s setting is associated with Princeton, New Jersey. The hospital’s name combines “Princeton” and “Plainsboro,” reflecting the fictional institution’s imagined location. Exterior shots for the hospital were filmed at Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center, while much of the show’s interior production took place on constructed sets.

Viewers sometimes shorten the name to “Princeton-Plainsboro” or call it a real New Jersey hospital. Neither shortcut changes the official fictional name used in the series. It is a story setting created for House M.D., not a hospital listed as an actual medical institution.