LANCASTER — The North Country Healthcare’s governing board and management breached its fiduciary duties by failing to follow the appropriate bylaw process for terminating former Weeks Medical Center Affiliate President Mike Lee and by failing to recruit and appoint a full-time, permanent replacement, according to a report from the Attorney General’s Charitable Trust Unit’s investigation.
The Charitable Trust Unit “did not find legal violations as to the other issues reviewed,” according to the report that was made public on Thursday.
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