The hospital is located along the road Kirkegata on the west side of the town of Levanger.

Levanger Hospital generally serves the southern and central parts of northern Trøndelag county.

On 1 April 1844, Peter Wilhelm Kreidahl Dietrichson was appointed as the chief physician of the hospital.

Former names for the hospital are Nordre Trondhjems Amts Sygehus på Eidesøren (lit.

'North Trondheim county's hospital at Eidesøren') and Innherred sykehus (lit.