5 Hospitals, The Joint Commission, CDC Team Up To Reduce C. Diff

The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have teamed up with five major hospital systems to perform research on barriers to effective solutions to Clostridium difficile.

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The organizations, currently in the process of conducting said research, are using improvement tools and concepts, including Lean and Six Sigma, to target roadblocks to successful hospital-acquired infection elimination.

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The project, begun December 2013, is expected to have published results some time during 2015, according to a release.

The hospital team members include:

Atlantic Health System (Morristown, N.J.)

Cleveland Clinic

Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.)

Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)

Memorial Hermann (Houston)

VA Connecticut Health System (West Haven)

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