BERLIN — Warren West, CEO of North Country Healthcare, accepted the 2016 Innovator of the Year Award a little over a year ago from Quorum Health Resources, a leading health-care consulting company based in Tennessee.
It’s no surprise that NCH has been recognized nationally.
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