OSSIPEE — Carroll County is being sued by the former assistant director of nursing at Mountain View Community, the county nursing home. In her lawsuit, Patti Cain claims she was improperly fired for being a whistleblower.
Cain, of Wolfeboro, had worked at Mountain View, for about a dozen years before being abruptly terminated in November of 2022.
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