What is the name of the fictional hospital where House M.D. is primarily set?

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

The hospital is located in Princeton, New Jersey, and provides the setting for most of the series’ diagnostic cases, consultations, administrative conflicts, and personal storylines. Gregory House leads a specialized diagnostic medicine department there, working with changing teams of doctors.

Princeton-Plainsboro is fictional, but the series used real locations and studio sets to create its medical environment. The exterior of the hospital was filmed at Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center in New Jersey, while much of the interior action was produced on soundstages in California.

Viewers sometimes confuse the hospital with Princeton University or assume that Princeton-Plainsboro is a real New Jersey medical center. It is not. The name combines the real communities of Princeton and Plainsboro, helping the fictional institution sound geographically plausible.