TUSCARAWAS COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
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 Administrative Team


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Katie Seward, MPH, CHES
Health Commissioner
Comissioner Katie Seward was appointed by the Board of Health in 2016 to the position of Health Commissioner and Chief Financial Officer. Seward is a 2008 graduate of the University of Mount Union, and she received her Masters of Public Health (MPH) from The Ohio State University in 2010. Seward is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and a Certified Rural Health Center Professional (CRHCP). Katie's former employers include Licking Memorial Hospital and Walt Disney World.

Comissioner Seward has been recognized as a STEM exemplar. Additionally, she has extensive public speaking experience which most recently includes being a presenter for the Ohio Public Health Association and a panelist for The Ohio State University College of Public Health. Her professional intersts include epidemology, health data and health behavior and promotion.

Contact Information:
director@tchdnow.org

Administrative Assistant:
(330) 343-4928

Bureau of Administrative Services

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Loretta Pinchek
Director of Information Services / Vital Statistics Registrar 
Loretta Pinchek has worked for the Tuscarawas County Health Department since May 1998.  She began her career in the Department's medical records department.  Pinchek became the office manager in 2000 and the Director of Medical Records in 2003. In 2012, Pinchek was named Registrar for the Department. Prior to working in public health, Pinchek worked in two local private medical offices.

Contact Information:
lpinchek@tchdnow.org
(330) 343-5555 x1310
Angela Frantz, CRHCP
Director of Administrative Services

​ ​Angela Frantz serves as the Clinical Coordinator under the Bureau of Community Health Services. She began her career with the Tuscarawas County Health Department in August 2015 and has been in asset in several departments since, including Medical Records and Environmental Health. Frantz graduated from Kent State Tuscarawas in 2007 with a BA in Psychology, returning in 2018 to acquire a Sanitarian in Training Registration. Frantz was promoted to interim Clinical Coordinator in March 2020 and then to Clinical Coordinator in August 2021.


Contact Information:
afrantz@tchdnow.org
(330) 343-5555 x1200
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Jennifer Demuth, BSC
Director of Promotion & Community Relations
Jennifer Demuth serves as the Director of  Promotion and Community Relations at the Tuscarawas County Health Department. Demuth has extensive experience in healthcare marketing, grant writing and project evaluating, and public relations. She served as Grant & Marketing Coordinator at Trinity Hospital Twin City (Dennison, Ohio) for 22 years where she wrote and managed 8 Federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant projects. Demuth serves actively on the Healthy Tuscarawas and Access Tuscarawas health and social service consortiums and as a board member for the Alcohol Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board (ADAMHS) that serves Tuscarawas and Carroll Counties. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications and a specialization in Health & Human Services from Ohio University in June 1998.

Contact Information:
jdemuth@tchdnow.org
(330) 343-5555 x1700



Bureau of Environmental Health Services
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Michael Kopko, REHS
​Director of Environmental Health Services



​Michael Kopko serves as the Director of Environmental Health Services. Kopko graduated from Ohio University in 2016 with a BS in Geological Science. He began his career with the Tuscarawas County Health Department as an Environmental Health Specialist-in-Training in August 2016 and has worked in numerous programs including Food Safety, Water Quality, and Solid Waste. He became a Registered Environmental Health Specialist in 2018. Kopko was promoted to Interim Director of Environmental Health in February 2022 and appointed as Director in August 2022.

Contact Information:
mkopko@tchdnow.org
(330) 343-5555 x1300
(330) 343-5550 

Bureau of Community Health Services
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Amy Kaser, RN
Director of Nursing

​Amy Kaser is a 1983 graduate of Conotton Valley High School and a 1986 graduate of the Massillon Community Hospital School of Nursing.  She has experience in intensive care nursing, home health nursing, long-term care; Director of Nursing, consulting and has worked for the Area Agency on Aging.  During her tenure at the Tuscarawas County Health Department, she has been the communicable disease nurse and currently serves in the role of Director of Nursing.  

Contact Information:
akaser@tchdnow.org
(330) 343-5555 x1800
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Chelsea Martin, BSN, RN
Clinical Coordinator

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Chelsea Martin is a 2011 graduate of Newcomerstown High School and received her nursing degree through Kent State University at Tuscarawas. She worked as a medical/telemetry nurse at Southeastern Med hospital in Cambridge prior to working in public health. Chelsea joined the Tuscarawas County Health Department (TCHD) in 2018 and has worked as the Communicable Disease Nurse, Bureau for Children with Medical Handicaps public health nurse, and the case manager for both the childhood lead poisoning prevention program and perinatal hepatitis B prevention program.  Chelsea currently serves as the Clinical Coordinator for the department’s medical clinic, assists with the reproductive health and immunization grants, and is the supervisor to the in-house Community Health Worker through Access Tusc’s Bridges to Wellness Program.


Contact Information:
cmartin@tchdnow.org
(330) 343-5555 x1320



Bureau of Maternal and Child Health Services
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Valerie Wilson, MS, RDN, LD, CLC
Director of Maternal & Child Health Services and WIC

Valerie Wilson has worked with the WIC Program for over 22 years. After earning a Master of Science degree in Public Health Nutrition with a specialty in Maternal and Child Nutrition from Case Western Reserve University, she began her career with the Indiana WIC Program. In August of 1999 Wilson returned to the area and started working as a registered dietitian nutritionist with the Tuscarawas County Health Department WIC Program. She became the Director of the WIC Program in October 2016 and the Director of the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health in November 2019. In addition, Wilson has been adjunct faculty at Kent State Tuscarawas since January 2007.

Contact Information:
wictuscarawas@odh.ohio.gov
(330) 343-5555 x1480



Bureau of Prevention Services 
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Natasha Yonley, MPH, CPH, CHES
Director of Prevention Services



​Natasha Yonley serves as the Director of Prevention Services. She has worked in public health for seven (7) years. For her undergraduate degree, Yonley attended the Ohio State University and majored in Biology. Yonley graduated from the University of Akron with her Master of Public Health in 2014. Yonley previously was the emergency preparedness coordinator and was promoted to interim Director of Prevention in November 2020, and then to Director of Prevention in July 2021.

Contact Information: 
nyonley@tchdnow.org
(330) 343-5555 x1710
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  • COVID 19
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  • Environmental Health
    • Animal Bite Investigation >
      • Rabies Surveillance
    • Camps, RV, and Recreation Parks
    • Food Safety Program >
      • Food Service / Retail Food Establishment Complaint Form
    • Mosquito Control
    • Nuisances >
      • Mold
      • Bed Bugs
      • Ticks
    • Public Swimming Pools and Spas
    • Solid Waste Program
    • Tattoo and Body Piercing Program
    • Water Safety Program (Well and Septic) >
      • Operation and Maintenance Program
      • Water Pollution Control Loan Fund
  • Community Health Services
    • CMH-Children with Medical Hanidcaps
    • Communicable Disease Reporting >
      • TB Control Unit
    • Immunizations
    • Reproductive Health and Wellness
    • Rural Health Clinic
    • Clinic Forms
  • Prevention Services
    • Car Seat Program
    • Cribs for Kids Program
    • Emergency Preparedness >
      • Medical Reserve Corp (MRC)
      • Preparedness Tips
    • Project DAWN >
      • Request A Naloxone Kit
    • Safe Beginnings
    • Safe Communities
    • Tobacco Use Prevention >
      • Ask, Advise, Refer
  • Vital Statistics
    • Birth & Death Certificates
  • Promotion and Community Relations
    • Press Releases
  • WIC (Women, Infant and Children)
  • Employment
  • About Us
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  • Contact Us
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    • Workforce Development >
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    • TCHD Position Descriptions
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    • TCHD Forms >
      • Accounting & Billing Forms
      • Branding Documents
      • Department Wide Forms
      • Clinic Forms
      • Environmental Health Forms
    • Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) & Performance Management (PM)
    • After Action Reports
    • EH Records