Days or Nights Available! New $7,500 Sign on Bonus!
Rocky River Gardens is looking to build a team of devoted and caring RNs/LPNs. If you are looking forward to becoming a part of a five-star team, we would love to meet you!
Why work for us?
Excellent wages We offer
Shift differentials
We offer weekend differentials
Peaceful and newly renovated work environment
Excellent orientation and mentor program
Free snacks and monthly employee lunches
Interested applicants may call or text Hannah in HR at (330) 958-4584.
Qualifications of a LPN
Must have an active license as an LPN in the state of OH Experience preferred, not required
Neighborhoods+Nurses and young professionals cluster in University Circle and Little Italy for a walk to Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and CWRU; Reddit also names southern Glenville and eastern Hough for the shortest CWRU-area drive. West-side picks are Ohio City (West Side Market, Red Line; 2026 snapshot median home about $124,250, rent $683), Tremont (historic houses, galleries, nightlife; median home about $180,380), Detroit-Shoreway/Gordon Square (theaters and Edgewater Park; median home about $120,920), and Kamm’s Corners (walkable suburban corner, low crime, cited near Cleveland Clinic employers; median home about $131,160). Downtown is high-rise apartments and condos; Old Brooklyn and Kamm’s Corners skew toward houses with driveways. East-side historic options include Shaker Square, Larchmere, and Buckeye-Shaker; Facebook locals also point families toward Chagrin Falls, Solon, and Brecksville.
Nurses and young professionals cluster in University Circle and Little Italy for a walk to Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and CWRU; Reddit also names southern Glenville and eastern Hough for the shortest CWRU-area drive. West-side picks are Ohio City (West Side Market, Red Line; 2026 snapshot median home about $124,250, rent $683), Tremont (historic houses, galleries, nightlife; median home about $180,380), Detroit-Shoreway/Gordon Square (theaters and Edgewater Park; median home about $120,920), and Kamm’s Corners (walkable suburban corner, low crime, cited near Cleveland Clinic employers; median home about $131,160).
Downtown is high-rise apartments and condos; Old Brooklyn and Kamm’s Corners skew toward houses with driveways. East-side historic options include Shaker Square, Larchmere, and Buckeye-Shaker; Facebook locals also point families toward Chagrin Falls, Solon, and Brecksville.
Getting around+University Circle is the hospital core; Reddit names University Circle, Little Italy, southern Glenville, and eastern Hough as the shortest CWRU/Clinic-area commutes, and Kamm’s Corners is described as near Cleveland Clinic employers. RTA’s Red Line links Ohio City (West 25th–Ohio City station) and Edgewater (West Blvd.–Cudell) to Tower City, where all rail lines meet and the B-Line Trolley covers Public Square and the Warehouse District; Tremont is more bus-plus-walk (route #81, about a 10–15 minute walk to West 25th) with the Towpath Trail for bikes. Off-peak drives to downtown run roughly 0–5 minutes from Downtown itself, 5–10 from Ohio City and Tremont, 8–15 from Detroit-Shoreway, and 10–15 from Edgewater. Most of Cleveland is car-dependent; Downtown parking is metered or garage, Tremont street parking is free but tight on restaurant nights, and one city guide puts the average commute at about 24 minutes.
University Circle is the hospital core; Reddit names University Circle, Little Italy, southern Glenville, and eastern Hough as the shortest CWRU/Clinic-area commutes, and Kamm’s Corners is described as near Cleveland Clinic employers. RTA’s Red Line links Ohio City (West 25th–Ohio City station) and Edgewater (West Blvd.–Cudell) to Tower City, where all rail lines meet and the B-Line Trolley covers Public Square and the Warehouse District; Tremont is more bus-plus-walk (route #81, about a 10–15 minute walk to West 25th) with the Towpath Trail for bikes.
Off-peak drives to downtown run roughly 0–5 minutes from Downtown itself, 5–10 from Ohio City and Tremont, 8–15 from Detroit-Shoreway, and 10–15 from Edgewater. Most of Cleveland is car-dependent; Downtown parking is metered or garage, Tremont street parking is free but tight on restaurant nights, and one city guide puts the average commute at about 24 minutes.
Outdoors+Lake Erie is the city’s north wall: Edgewater Park and Edgewater Beach are the named west-side hangouts for swimming, trails, sunsets, and watching dogs run, walkable from Detroit-Shoreway and Edgewater. Lincoln Park is Tremont’s green center; the Towpath Trail supports bike trips through the Cuyahoga valley; Old Brooklyn is the neighborhood tied to the zoo. Cuyahoga Valley National Park is the big nearby escape, and Cleveland Metroparks plus unlimited fresh water and a lack of wildfires or typical natural disasters come up constantly in local pros lists.
Lake Erie is the city’s north wall: Edgewater Park and Edgewater Beach are the named west-side hangouts for swimming, trails, sunsets, and watching dogs run, walkable from Detroit-Shoreway and Edgewater. Lincoln Park is Tremont’s green center; the Towpath Trail supports bike trips through the Cuyahoga valley; Old Brooklyn is the neighborhood tied to the zoo.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park is the big nearby escape, and Cleveland Metroparks plus unlimited fresh water and a lack of wildfires or typical natural disasters come up constantly in local pros lists.
Check the commute at your shift’s start and end, upfront housing costs, and whether moving assistance must be repaid if you leave.
Living in Cleveland
Cleveland is a Lake Erie hospital city: Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals sit in University Circle, so nurses can walk from University Circle or Little Italy, take the RTA Red Line from Ohio City’s West 25th station, or drive 10–15 minutes from Tremont, Gordon Square, Edgewater, or Kamm’s Corners. Housing is the other distinction—city three-bedrooms listed around $134,900 in mid-2026, mostly older houses and doubles, with Downtown as the high-rise exception. Culture punches above the rust-belt stereotype: Playhouse Square, a free Cleveland Museum of Art, the Rock Hall, West Side Market, Guardians baseball, and Edgewater Beach. Ohio City and Tremont concentrate restaurants and nightlife. Tradeoffs are real: long gray lake-effect winters, a car for most of the city, and crime that is sharply neighborhood-specific. Summers, Metroparks, and Cuyahoga Valley National Park are why people stay. Visit in January and pick a named neighborhood, not a metro average.
