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The Joint Commission (TJC) will hold hospitals accountable for their cesarean section rates beginning Jan. 1, 2014, and many providers will have to effect an entire culture change within the obstetrical unit by then. Documentation of any cesareans will become especially important.

Joint Commission to assess rates of C-sections, punishment possible