Hospital in Shooting Flap OKd for Funds

A Chicago hospital that did nothing to help a gunshot victim dying outside the building has received approval for its new emergency policy and will continue to receive Medicare funding, officials said. Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center was in danger of being shut out of Medicare participation after the death May 16 of Christopher Sercye. He died 35 feet from the hospital where friends had brought him after he was caught in gang cross-fire. Workers at Ravenswood refused to leave the building to treat the 15-year-old shooting victim, believing that doing so would have violated hospital policy. Two days later, Ravenswood changed its policy.