Comment on CMS-2026-1256-0002
Joint CommissionSupportAdvocacy
Summary: The Joint Commission supports CMS's efforts to expand the Birthing-Friendly Hospital Designation and suggests using a tiered structure to recognize various levels of hospital performance. They advocate for incorporating the Maternal Levels of Care (MLC) framework for benchmarking and offer to share data from their own Outcomes-Driven Certification in Perinatal Care (ODC-PC) program to inform the rulemaking.
Please see the attached comments on behalf of Joint Commission.