Policy Is Revised After Staff Fails to Help Shot Teen
A policy that only ambulances rescue patients was changed Monday after workers failed to help a 15-year-old boy as he lay bleeding only steps from a Chicago hospital.
Frustrated police officers who were waiting for an ambulance finally carried the wounded boy, Christopher Sercye, into Ravenswood Hospital Saturday night, but he died a short time later.
Witnesses at the scene said that despite pleas, hospital emergency workers refused to come to Sercye’s aid, quoting hospital rules.
Ravenswood Hospital President John Blair defended the workers at a news conference, but said the policy that prevented caregivers from setting foot outside the hospital to offer help would be changed.
Three suspected gang members were arrested and charged in the shooting.
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