Cigna Donates 2,500 Handmade Caps to St. Joseph’s Tiniest Babies
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Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center will receive 2,500 handmade caps for the tiny babies treated in its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). A team from Cigna HealthCare knitted and crocheted the caps as part of a March of Dimes campaign and will present them to families whose babies are being treated in St. Joseph’s NICU. This is one of the largest donations of its kind for the unit.
John Keats, MD, Cigna regional medical director, will join Cigna’s knitting team to present the unique caps to Kate Sepe from the March of Dimes and St. Joseph’s VP of nursing, Julie Ward before distributing them to families throughout the NICU.
Each year, St. Joseph’s NICU is the first home for nearly 600 ill and premature newborns. Often weighing less than a pound, these babies can stay in the unit for weeks and even months. These handmade caps not only help sick and premature babies maintain their body heat, which is essential to their development, but they are also an act of kindness that provides families with a tangible treasure and a sense of normalcy.
Cigna is a national sponsor of March of Dimes, an organization which helps fight preterm birth. A group of dedicated individuals at Cigna in Phoenix made 2,500 caps, mostly over the eight weeks of their recent March of Dimes campaign.
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