Mover and shaker
Native Emporian Herb Kuhn is one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare, according to the seventh-annual list compiled by Modern Healthcare magazine.
Kuhn, the son of John and Carolyn Kuhn, is the deputy administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Washington, D.C., the federal agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. He graduated from Emporia High School and Emporia State University.
He’s ranked No. 90 on the list that also includes presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
To view the full list, go online to http://modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=100mpphotogallery2008
Dangerous bassinets
WASHINGTON — A government safety group is warning parents not to use a Pennsylvania company’s baby bassinets after a baby in Kansas was trapped and strangled in the product.
The “close-sleeper/bedside sleeper” bassinets, made by Simplicity of Reading, Pa., can allow infants to slip through the product and suffocate, said the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Simplicity’s 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 convertible bassinets contain metal bars spaced farther apart than federal standards allow.
CPSC said a 5-month-old girl from Shawnee was strangled on Aug. 21.