VillageMD, a Chicago-based provider of primary care support solutions, raised $100 million in a Series B funding round led by international investment firm Kinnevik.

Police are investigating the death of a Phoenix hospital patient who died shortly after being visited by an unidentified man, according to NBC affiliate 12 News.

Opioids kill 130 Americans per day, and nurses play a critical role in screening and identifying patients with substance use disorders, according to AJC Pulse.

Several nurses have conducted research focused on bedside care to improve patient satisfaction at Providence St. Joseph Health hospitals in California's Los Angeles and Orange counties, according to a press release published by KHTS.

A rural county in West Virginia has seen an uptick in HIV cases linked to opioid use, a trend many public health officials have long feared, reports Politico.

A bankruptcy court judge will rule Sept. 4 on whether a consortium of health systems in the Philadelphia area can buy Hahnemann University Hospital's residency program for $55 million, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine will establish a new Center of Excellence in which psychiatry and radiology researchers will use PET imaging to study neurobiological changes associated with opioid use disorder.

The Joint Commission appointed Raji Thomas, DNP, director of the Office of Quality and Patient Safety.

The number of measles cases in the U.S. jumped by 19 in one week, bringing the total to 1,234 as of Aug. 29, according to the CDC. Meanwhile, New York City declared its outbreak over.

Management at Biloxi, Miss.-based Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System hired a thoracic surgeon in 2013 despite knowing he had a history of licensure and malpractice issues, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General, The Sun…