Comedian Louie Anderson will headline a celebration Friday, May 15, to benefit Make Your Date, a Detroit regional program fighting preterm birth. The event will be at MGM Grand Detroit, with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan serving as honorary chairman of the gala. "Stand Up For Make Your Date with Louie Anderson" begins at 6:30 p.m. and includes cocktails, dinner and Anderson's performance. Proceeds benefit Make Your Date, launched by the City of Detroit in 2014. The Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University and other key partners designed the initiative to help expectant mothers deliver healthy full-term babies. The program provides a consistent approach among local health care providers in how they deliver support and care to expectant mothers. The program builds on existing regional talents, such as the Perinatology Research Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/National Institutes of Health at Wayne State University and the Detroit Medical Center.

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