UnitedHealth Group CEO encourages staff to make health care work better for everyone after fatal shooting

The CEO of Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group offered encouraging words to the health care corporation Wednesday, a day after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was killed in a targeted shooting in New York City last week, was laid to rest.

Thompson, 50, was shot from behind on the sidewalk outside a New York City Hilton hotel Dec. 4 before a shareholder conference. 

After a five-day nationwide manhunt for Thompson's killer, Luigi Nicholas Mangione, 26, was taken...