Riverside Healthcare

If you are newly licensed, the Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency enrolls you automatically based on your hire date. You get a mentor and a preceptor, monthly small-group clinical reflection with an experienced facilitator, and educators who round on the units; the program runs about four hours a month for a year and is also open to new-grad LPNs and nurses with little acute-care experience. Behavioral health is a live story here. A nearly $30 million multi-phase rebuild of the 1973 inpatient BH units started in fall 2025 and runs through 2027, adding more private rooms, geriatric BH space, and therapeutic design. One RN posting we saw listed $49.30 an hour. Day and night shifts appear on postings in full-time and part-time form. Allnurses data shows roughly 1.52 RNs per bed, 20.6 HPPD, and a staffing grade A at about 39.8% occupancy. The honest gap: a 2020 Glassdoor review from a former Kankakee RN described 13-plus-hour shifts with little or no lunch, dangerous ratios, and a punitive feel. Broader Kankakee Glassdoor sits around 3.5/5 from 86 reviews, with 74% saying they would recommend and senior management the lowest-rated area at 3.0. Ask about current staffing and break culture when you talk with the unit.