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.