CMS Pneumonia indicators

Hi ER,

We are doing PN, AMI, CHF, and hip and knee. I do the Pneumonia. I work very closely with the ER dept. As you know, everything starts there! In Nov. our ER were 100% with the blood cultures before ABX and doing ABX in 4 hrs. I just started this position in August and we were at rock bottom. I'm interested in learning how other hospitals are handling the issues around the CMS performance measures... successes, failures, trials, tribulations, you know? Thanks for answering my post. It's nice to meet you! (I'm new to this so I'm not real sure how to do things on this site yet)