LACONIA — Bruce Cheney, who chaired the board of directors at LRGHealthcare in the 1980s, remembers a pretty tight financial ship.
“The hospital was doing OK,” said Cheney, now a Laconia city councilor. “It wasn’t setting the world on fire, but it didn’t have significant debt. We did renovations and paid the bills and things were going fine.”
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