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Population: 24,914

Paragould can currently offer an average annual salary for staff nurses of around $58,807. The job comes with a number of benefits, and the hospitals throughout the area offer the chance to work and train in a variety of areas of medicine and medical science. These hospitals and medical centers include a number of high quality, notorious centers of excellence, including Arkansas Methodist Medical Center, Twin Rivers Medical Center and the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital. Paragould is a city in Arkansas and can be found in the Greene County. The area’s name came about by combining the surnames of two railrode magnates in the area – their names were Gould and Paramore. This is the only city in the world named ‘Paragould’, and has a long history based around railways and trains. There are plenty of nursing schools throughout the area, including Arkansas State University School of Nursing.

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