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Greater Detroit Area Health Council - Performance Report


This report is the first of its kind in Michigan. It lets a user compare participating Physician Organizations across a set of quality and use measures. The PO Performance Report may be used as one tool in learning about quality of health care services.

Health Care Performance Report


This Health Care Performance Report has been developed by the Save Lives Save Dollars initiative to assist you in making more informed health care decisions. It provides easy-to-read and reliable comparative information on the 40 hospitals in southeastern Michigan. It compares how well hospitals in the region perform in following established "evidence-based guidelines."

Greater Detroit Area Health Council


Save Lives Save Dollars (SLSD) is a multi-year initiative of coordinated, immediate and long-term actions to drive quality improvement (save lives) and derive cost reductions (save dollars) in southeastern Michigan.

Tourism & Economic Development Council: Metro Detroit Image Strategy


The role of the Council is to encourage involvement of other leaders, both public and private, to facilitate change.

Detroit Brand Style Guide


Guidelines for the proper usage of branding elements developed for Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Qualitative Summary of Results of the Public Survey For Metro Detroit Tourism - 2006


This survey is one of several sources of information used to develop findings and insights relating to development of the Metro Detroit Tourism Brand Story.

Legislator Contact Information


Value of Performing Arts in Five Communities


The Performing Arts Research Coalition (PARC) brings together five major national service organizations (NSOs) in the performing arts — the American Symphony Orchestra League, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Dance/USA, OPERA America, and Theatre Communications Group — to improve and coordinate the way performing arts organizations gather information on their sector.

Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate about the Benefit of the Arts - 2004


The goal of this study was to improve the current understanding of the arts’ full range of effects in order to inform public debate and policy. The study entailed reviewing all benefits associated with the arts, analyzing how they may be created, and examining how they accrue to individuals and the public through different forms of arts participation.

What Visiors say about their Museum Experiences


The primary purpose of the statewide study, as commissioned by Travel Michigan/Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), was to document the economic impacts of cultural tourism on Michigan and local economies. Due to challenges associated with clearly defining and isolating “cultural tourism” from other types of tourism, and because some cultural tourism is not site-based, the focus of the study was narrowed to one indicator of cultural tourism – tourism that involved a visit to at least one museum.