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Here are the 14 hospitals in America with the most annual emergency room visits for fiscal year 2016. Totals represent the amount of emergency room visits tallied for a single facility, rather than total ER visits for a whole health system.

This listing is based on several sources of information and all figures are verified by individual hospitals. Start and end dates for the fiscal year may vary by hospital.

1. Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Medical Center — 217,208

2. Parkland Health and Hospital System (Dallas) — 171,390

3. NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln (Bronx, N.Y.) — 163,622

4. St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center (Paterson, N.J.) — 162,635

5. WellStar Kennestone Hospital (Marietta, Ga.) — 144,868

6. Banner Desert Medical Center (Mesa, Ariz.) — 144,512

7. NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County (Brooklyn, N.Y.) — 139,040

8. Erlanger Medical Center (Chattanooga, Tenn.) — 138,740

9. NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst (N.Y.) — 136,643

10. Grady Health System (Atlanta) — 134,049

11. Reading Hospital (West Reading, Pa.) — 133,498

12. Boston Medical Center — 132,148

13. Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak (Mich.) — 130,892

14. Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital — 130,644

Here are the average hourly wage and salary for Licensed Practical Nurse LPN (LVN) in all 50 states, based on BLS data gathered in May 2017, listed in alphabetical order.

Here are the average hourly wage and salary for Phlebotomists in all 50 states, based on BLS data gathered in May 2017, listed in alphabetical order.

Registered nurses in California earn the highest average annual salary of RNs in the U.S. at $101,260, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hawaii is a close second at $90,130 followed by Massachusetts, Alaska and Oregon.

Here are the average hourly wage and salary for registered nurses in all 50 states, based on BLS data gathered in May 2015, listed in alphabetical order.

CHICAGO, IL – Local patient Sam Johnson, who is being “taken care of” at Mercy Hospital, has not been able to leave for 7 months. Internist Dr. Kyle Redding has failed miserably at placement.

“He is the literal definition of a rock,” administrator Janell Robbins told reports. Besides the inability for Robbins to know the difference between literally and figuratively, she has been unable to place Johnson in any kind of step-down care.

“We are literally at the end of our ropes around here,” Robbins continued. “The only care Mr. Johnson has received in the last 2 months was a blood transfusion, which was eventually linked to daily blood draws that were never stopped.”

A blessing for Robbins literally came from the sky when United Airlines forcefully “re-accommodated” a physician. “If they can drag a doctor off the plane, they can surely get rid of Mr. Johnson,” Robbins schemed. “Heck, I can’t even get rid of some of these doctors around here, United Airlines has something special.”

United Airlines jumped on the chance to to remove someone. Unfortunately for Mercy Hospital, United was too rough on Sam Johnson and he suffered multiple blows to the head, body, and left arm and therefore had to be readmitted. Let’s hope Mr. Johnson makes a speedy recovery so United can get another crack at it!!!

We asked our Facebook fans for the best April Fools’ Day joke you’ve ever played?; check out some of their responses below…and sound off with your own in the comments!

I heated up a snickers bar and put it in a specimen cup and ate it out of specimen cup at the nursing station and drank apple juice out of an urinal… The rest of nurses there were pretty grossed out!!!! – Scotty Wade

I called the labor room and asked them if they had any Fallopian tubes. The nurse said “wait let me go check”. Then she came back on line and was laughing! April Fools!! – Patti Pyott Griswold

We use a whiteboard in our observation unit to keep track of our bed roster (pt name, dx, room#, etc). I work night shift. We update the board each morning for day shift. Last year we filled it with mock patients and diagnoses. As the dayshift crew arrived, they were initially overwhelmed by the entire unit being “full.” Then they caught on as they started to notice patient names/diagnoses like … Poke/multiple stab wounds, Wesson/gsw, Coldman/DOA, Butts/anal abcess, ..on and on. It was hilarious!! – Amie Page

Let my brother borrow my truck to go to the grocery store, so while he and his wife were inside the store, my husband and I drove there In my other truck and moved the truck he was driving on the other side of parking lot (I had a spare key). Let’s just say when they came.out of the grocery store they were flipping out because they thought the truck was stolen…. Rotflmbo,, I was laughing so hard, but he wasn’t when he found out, lol.. – Rebecca Rose

We put a foley bag filled with water and a couple goldfish and hung it from a pt’s bed. Everyone too k a double take and the patient really enjoyed everyone’s response 🙂 – Lisa D Baddeley Durnbaugh

To get a better idea of which careers are the most stressful, CareerCast examined 200 professions to compile its latest Jobs Rated report.

CareerCast weighed 11 factors to rank the most stressful jobs: travel; deadlines; working in the public eye; competitiveness; physical demands; environmental conditions; hazards encountered; the life of oneself or others at risk; meeting and interacting with customers or the public; and the potential for job growth.

Based on the 11 factors evaluated to determine the CareerCast’s jobs rated stress rankings, these 10 are the least stressful for workers: