In the 1970s, the city was named Port Charles, New York. The show was created by husband-and-wife soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, who originally set it in a hospital, in an unnamed fictional city. It holds the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, with 14 wins. General Hospital is the longest-running serial produced in Hollywood, and the longest-running entertainment program in ABC television history. General Hospital premiered on the ABC television network on April 1, 1963. Concurrently, it is the world's third longest-running scripted drama series in production after British serials The Archers and Coronation Street, as well as the world's second-longest-running televised soap opera still in production.

It is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running American soap opera in production, and the second in American history after Guiding Light.

General Hospital (often abbreviated as GH) is an American daytime television soap opera.

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