CMT’s ambulance permit made official earlier this month
NORWICH – It’s official. Cooperstown Medical Transport was approved earlier this month by the state Department of Health to expand its private ambulance service into Chenango County.
Department officials granted CMT a “Certificate of Need” on Feb. 11 after no appeals were filed against letting the private ambulance move into the county.
“Cooperstown Medical Transport, Inc. is a good ambulance service and the addition of CMT in Chenango County is positive,” said Claudia S. Hutton, a health department spokeswoman, earlier this week.
The company is stepping in after Superior Ambulance, a Binghamton-based private EMS, shut down its operation in Chenango County last October, citing a lack of profitable 911 calls.
CMT had been operating locally under an emergency certificate of need since November after Superior pulled out. It’s Norwich location got up and running sometime around the first week in February, company officials said in a previous interview.
“We are dispatching CMT” from the 911 center, said Chenango County EMS coordinator Jansen Casscles. “It’s pretty much the same as Superior – dispatchers get a 911 call, they call a local agency. If CMT is warranted or needed, they send for CMT.”
CMT officials did not return a call seeking comment.
When Superior left, it was believed there would be an ambulance shortage, since it handled many 911 calls – around 2,000 per year – in outlying townships that lacked volunteer ambulance and EMS services.
Matt Beckwith, the county’s fire coordinator, said so far the bulk of CMT’s calls have been hospital-to-hospital transports. He said the “911 needs” have not yet been satisfied in the county, but expects CMT to have a bigger impact on that as it hires more staff and brings in more equipment.
“It certainly better than it was before,” Beckwith said.
CMT already has operations in Otsego and Delaware counties. For several months, the company has been assisting on calls in the Bainbridge and Afton area from its Sidney location.
Prior to opening its Norwich operation, the private ambulance was granted an emergency permit to dispatch paramedics out of its Oneonta and Sidney locations to cover calls in Chenango County.
Department officials granted CMT a “Certificate of Need” on Feb. 11 after no appeals were filed against letting the private ambulance move into the county.
“Cooperstown Medical Transport, Inc. is a good ambulance service and the addition of CMT in Chenango County is positive,” said Claudia S. Hutton, a health department spokeswoman, earlier this week.
The company is stepping in after Superior Ambulance, a Binghamton-based private EMS, shut down its operation in Chenango County last October, citing a lack of profitable 911 calls.
CMT had been operating locally under an emergency certificate of need since November after Superior pulled out. It’s Norwich location got up and running sometime around the first week in February, company officials said in a previous interview.
“We are dispatching CMT” from the 911 center, said Chenango County EMS coordinator Jansen Casscles. “It’s pretty much the same as Superior – dispatchers get a 911 call, they call a local agency. If CMT is warranted or needed, they send for CMT.”
CMT officials did not return a call seeking comment.
When Superior left, it was believed there would be an ambulance shortage, since it handled many 911 calls – around 2,000 per year – in outlying townships that lacked volunteer ambulance and EMS services.
Matt Beckwith, the county’s fire coordinator, said so far the bulk of CMT’s calls have been hospital-to-hospital transports. He said the “911 needs” have not yet been satisfied in the county, but expects CMT to have a bigger impact on that as it hires more staff and brings in more equipment.
“It certainly better than it was before,” Beckwith said.
CMT already has operations in Otsego and Delaware counties. For several months, the company has been assisting on calls in the Bainbridge and Afton area from its Sidney location.
Prior to opening its Norwich operation, the private ambulance was granted an emergency permit to dispatch paramedics out of its Oneonta and Sidney locations to cover calls in Chenango County.
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