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

The fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital is the main setting of House M.D.

Princeton-Plainsboro is portrayed as a teaching hospital in New Jersey, where Dr. Gregory House leads a specialized diagnostic medicine department. The hospital provides the series with a central workplace for patient cases, staff disputes, research, and administrative decisions.

Although the hospital is fictional, the series used real locations for filming. The exterior of Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center in New Jersey served as a prominent visual stand-in for the hospital. This helped give the show a distinctive institutional setting while keeping the story connected to the Princeton area.

The hospital’s leadership changed during the series. Lisa Cuddy served as dean of medicine and hospital administrator for much of the early run, while other characters later took on senior administrative roles. Princeton-Plainsboro is sometimes mistaken for a real hospital because the name sounds plausible and the show uses realistic medical language. It should not be confused with Princeton University’s actual medical facilities or with real hospitals appearing in other television dramas.