USA TODAY The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care, plans to start publicly reporting next year on hospitals with high cesarean section birth rates. “We are trying to identify hospitals that have high cesarean section rates as they work to improve,” said Dr. David Baker, executive vice president for Healthcare Quality Evaluation at TJC. “We want to encourage organizations to reduce their C-sections and encourage leaders to do that in a safe way.” Since 1985, the World Health Organization has considered the ideal rate for C-section births to be between 10% to 15%. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports more than 31% of all deliveries in the U.S. were by C-section in 2018. Tricia Elliott, director of Quality Measurement at TJC, says some U.S. hospitals report C-section rates as high as 60%.