Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital

Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital

The hospital appears to be a non-profit entity, essentially run as a charity with no shareholders. It's a teaching hospital, which means it's affiliated with a university medical school (although it has never been revealed which one, and Princeton University has no medical school) and is responsible for training medical students, interns, residents, and fellows.

Organization

The hospital's highest authority is the Board of Directors, which is primarily made up of department heads, together with important donors. Generally, the Chairman of the Board is one of the donors rather than one of the doctors. The current chairman of the board is Sanford Wells, the owner of a large corporation. The board generally does not involve itself in the day-to-day running of the hospital. Its chief duty appears to be to approve the hiring of chief administrative officers and approving contracts for major expenses, such as those with the hospital's insurers. The Board also determines which doctors are entitled to tenure in the hospital's role as a medical educator. The Board elects and dismisses its own members by majority vote of the remainder of the members.
Doctor Lisa Cuddy was the Hospital's Dean of Medicine and head administrator. She's responsible for all the day-to-day functions of the hospital, including supervising the department heads, overseeing medical training, disciplining students, making personnel decisions about non-tenured staff, determining who may have hospital privileges, and meeting the hospital's ongoing regulatory requirements. She reports directly to the Board. Each department of the hospital has a department head, who is responsible for personnel decisions within the department and ensuring interns, residents and fellows are properly supervised during their medical training. Princeton-Plainsboro's Head Nurse is Brenda Previn who is responsible for allocation of patient rooms and diagnostic facilities.

Physical Plan

While being a fairly modern hospital with wide open plan areas, it's clear that it has been expanded and upgraded over time by the appearance of several older areas (such as the lecture hall where Dr. House held the game for fellowship doctors). The hospital includes a free clinic where members of the public can come for free treatment. All doctors employed at the hospital must serve in the clinic for a certain amount of hours (generally two) every week. Department heads are expected to work in the clinic, and even Dr. Cuddy has been known to take a turn with House going to great lengths to avoid it. The hospital's equipment is state-of-the-art, and it's so well equipped that almost all of its testing can be done within the hospital and does not have to be sent out to an outside laboratory.

Wings

Some of the wings of the hospital are named after people who are significant to Princeton, New Jersey and Princeton University. Witherspoon is likely named after John Witherspoon, a New Jersey representative to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence. There's also a street in Princeton named after him. Mathey was a major donor to Princeton University and the man responsible for steering the university's endowment through the first great depression of the United States. There's also a residential college named after him. Cuyler is also the name of a residence hall. Carnegie is likely named after Andrew Carnegie who was very generous to the university and created the man-made Lake Carnegie. A popular local brand of scotch is called "Loch Carnegie".

Revenue

PPTH's main source of revenue is insurance payments. Its number one insurer is Atlantic Net, which insures over 80% of the hospital's patients. The hospital also seeks out major donors and foundations, primarily to fund capital improvements.

Departments

• Oncology - Headed by James Wilson
• Diagnostics - Headed by Gregory House
• Emergency Room - Headed by Allison Cameron
• Surgery - Headed by Dave Thomas
• Obstetrics
• Pediatrics
• Cardiology
• Nephrology
• Radiology
• Rheumatology
• Internal Medicine - Headed by Marty Kaufman
• Isolation room
• ICU
• Burn unit
• Sleep lab and labs
• Transplantation - Headed by Lawrence Hourani
• Psychiatry - Headed by Louise Harper

Notable Personnel

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Chairman of the Board Sanford Wells	Dean of Medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy

Medical Personnel

Head of Surgery Dr. Dave Thomas	Head of Internal Med. Dr. Marty Kaufman	Head of Transplants Dr. Lawrence Hourani	Head of Psychiatry Dr. Louise Harper	Head Of Orthopedics Dr. Ron Simpson

General Surgeon Dr. Mark Bergen	Transplant Surgeon Dr. John Ayersman	Neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Robinson	Pediatrics Dr. Keio Chung	OB/GYN Dr. Kenneth Lim

Pathology Dr. Imelda Cruz	Pharmacist Dr. Marco Pelaez	Intensivist Dr. Tim O'Shea

Diagnostics Department

Head of Diagnostics Dr. Eric Foreman	Diagnostics Fellow Dr. Christopher Taub	Diagnostics Fellow Dr. Chi Park	Diagnostics Fellow Dr. Jessica Adams

Former Staff

Head of E.R. Dr. Alison Cameron Former	Diagnostics Fellow Dr. Martha M. Masters Former	Diagnostics Fellow Dr. Remy Hadley Retired	Diagnostics Fellow Dr. Lawrence Kutner Deceased	Diagnostics Applicant Dr. Amber Volakis Deceased

Head of Oncology Dr. James Wilson Deceased	Head of Diagnostics Dr. Gregory House Deceased

Nursing Staff

Head Nurse Brenda Pravin	Nurse Regina Vilar	Nurse Jeffrey Sparkman	Nurse Ruby Grey	Nurse Wendy Quinn

Trivia

Motto: "Omnes te moriturum amant"
Ironically, the hospital's motto has a classical meaning and a euphemistic meaning. The more literal translation that fits with the hospital's purpose is "Everyone loves you, who are about to die." However, the more sarcastic meaning is "Everyone loves you when you're on your deathbed," a cynical twist worthy of House himself to the effect that you treat people better when they are about to die.