CHENANGO COUNTY – UHS Chenango Memorial may become the newest site for behavioral health treatment that’s offered by Chenango County’s Behavioral Health Service Center.

Chenango County Behavioral Health Services is entertaining a notion to open a satellite clinic inside UHS Chenango Memorial Hospital in Norwich, something state law had prohibited.

But with recent changes in state law which now permit behavioral services in a hospital setting, swayed by the legislature’s push to combine health services, a Behavioral Health Services office in the hospital is likely in the near future, according to BHS Director Ruth Roberts.

“It’s still very early in the process,” said Roberts, “but I think with new waivers that are available that there’s a good possibility that we can get this done.”

The department’s first attempt at establishing such a clinic was in 2014, but requests were denied by the state Department of Health.