I spent 2 years working for the Reverend Jim Jones Miller cult. I only sipped the koolaid. Hopefully the work environment for the survivors will improve. There are a lot of employees there who really care for the patients. I am sure morale is sky high. I would like to see more first hand stories about Jim.

Since my previous comments dissappeared, I am repeating them: Well, I just watched the news clip. Of course Jim Miller refused to speak on camera, the board of directors met behind closed doors and the news people were sent away. This is how Washoe Medical Center/renown operates. I worked for them for over 20 years and they always put a spin on their story. They haven't had a chance to create a story yet that absolves them from guilt. They forced nurses to unionize years ago. Then, they never seriously negotiated, forcing us to strike THREE times. Many nurses were wrongfully terminated or just harassed so much, they had to quit. Much of the real story was either suppressed or the facts were skewed by Jim Miller and associates to try to keep them appearing honest. Having their own insurance companies gives Washoe Medical Center/renown just that much more control over doctors and the patients in the community. Why do you think the insurance companies were created? Mr Miller is now treating doctors as badly as he has been treating nurses for years. Unfortunately, most nurses don't have the finances that doctors do, otherwise Washoe Medical Center/renown would have been sued successfully many years ago. Why do you think they spent millions of dollars to change their name? It was all the bad press they got while destroying nurses who stood up for patient care. I knew it was only a matter of time before the community would see that money, not patients, is all they care about. Jim Miller, may you and all the rest of Washoe Medical Center/renown management get what you deserve!

I see my previous comments are gone. Why? We all know if/when miller is terminated, he will take with him millions of dollars in severence pay. Sounds like politics, doesn't it? You are a horrible person who only cares about yourself. You ruin the lives of hundreds of people, and you are rewarded by being overpaid with a secure retirement. If this were a just world, miller would live in a beat up car and scrub toilets for a living.

Last April, I went to the ER at Renown for a stomach ache...I was there about an hour..they gave me some pills and sent me home..I now have a bill for over $4300 which is in collections...I have been unemployed for three yrs now because I lost my insurance when layed off... I can barely affort food and shelter as it is .. I'll be danged if I am going to help pay for their greed,huge expansion and mismanagement !!

Mr Miller as well as the Board of Directors are culpable for the deterioration of a fine, caring institution. The Board needs to go on permanent vacation as well. Hear a common thread, community? Experience has been "eliminated" and replaced by younger, lower waged employees. The experience is gone. Heaven help those who are hospitalized.

You may wish to look at all the private physicians Renown and their subsidiary HHP have run out of town. Consider that the next time you need to wait a month for a new patient visit or two weeks for an established patient visit with your physician or when you discover that the only pediatrician in Sparks isn't on HHP's panel (they dropped him with no reason).

I wonder if the other stations are afraid of losing advertising dollars? You would think a story this big would be on everyone's mind and on everyone's channel since it looks like a big impact on the entire community. 15 million is a lot of money to just write a check.

renomom, I'm not surprised that the media has been mum. I have noticed that anytime a negative story emerges on most news channels and our local newspaper about Renown, the next day it is gone and not heard of again.

Go and get'em. That smug smirking straw man Miller turned what used to be a caring environment and great workplace into a miserable corporate sterility. I worked there for 33 years before my job among others was eliminated in 2005. I guess they had to pay for that name change somehow. I remember that we had to agree with everything management came up with and keep pretending everything was fine even when we could see that the emperor had no clothes. Management didn't want to hear that people were not being properly trained or that procedures were being ignored. We were just supposed to keep smiling and attending happy assemblies where we patted ourselves on the back for the good job we were doing. I hope he will learn what it feels like to be let go. It couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

Koolbeanz, Sorry to hear you were one of the thousands of employees he has negatively affected over his much too long tenure at Washoe Med. My wife worked there for 14.5 years and was a salaried exempt. When her salary got high enough they "restructured" and eliminated her position, hiring a couple clerks to try and do most of her job. Guess what happened...in the years to follow everything went to hell in that office. Miller has NO regard for the employees or the patients. It's all about KING JIM. That's why the renown colors are "royal purple" to honor the king.