Hats for newborns part of heart campaign

By Sara CardineStaff Writer

Feb. 9, 2017 12:52 PM PT

Throughout the month of February, all babies born at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital will take home free handmade, red knit hats as part of the American Heart Assn.’s “Little Hats, Big Hearts” campaign.

As part of a collaborative program with the Children’s Heart Foundation, and sponsored locally by Union Bank, the effort aims to raise awareness of heart disease and congenital heart defects, the most common type of birth defect.

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More than 1,600 babies in Los Angeles will receive the caps, knit by volunteers in celebration of Heart Month in February. Follow the campaign on social media at #LittleHatsLA or visit heart.org/littlehatsbighearts to learn more.

Sara Cardine, sara.cardine@latimes.com

Twitter: @SaraCardine

Sara Cardine

Sara Cardine covers the city of Costa Mesa for the Daily Pilot. She comes from the La Cañada Valley Sun, where she spent six years as the news reporter covering La Cañada Flintridge and recently received a first-place Public Service Journalism award from the California News Publishers Assn. She’s also worked at the Pasadena Weekly, Stockton Record and Lodi-News Sentinel, which instilled in her a love for community news. (714) 966-4627