After a monthslong review, the Charitable Trusts Unit concluded that North Country Healthcare, which operates three hospitals in rural northern New Hampshire, breached its fiduciary duties when it fired Weeks Medical Center President Michael Lee and recommended a set of corrective actions to regain community trust.
The Charitable Trusts Unit, an agency within the Attorney General’s Office that reviews hospital mergers, specifically cited North Country Healthcare for failing to recruit and appoint a full-time permanent replacement for Lee. It also lamented in its report that the move spurred a series of resignations “thereby calling into question the validity of a WMC board affirmative vote to substantially alter NCH’s governance structure.”
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