“General Hospital” was created by husband-and-wife soap opera writers Frank and Doris Hursley who originally set it in a general hospital in an unnamed fictional city. Instead of looking for an appropriate title, the producers just picked up the setting and that was it.
The first stories were mainly set on the seventh floor of General Hospital and the writers had the concept that it was like a big wagon wheel, where the spoke would be the characters while the hub would be the hospital
Eventually, the city was named later on as Port Charles in New York. From the late 70s, most of the stories of the daytime medical drama revolved around the Quatermaines and the Spencers in their respective efforts to gain control of the hospital.
“General Hospital” was listed by Time magazine in 2007 as one of the 100 best TV shows of all-time.