Gina Marie Messina

Gina Marie Messina is a long-term care social worker with nearly two decades of dedicated experience in behavioral nursing home and skilled nursing settings. She currently serves as a Social Worker at The Manor at Perrysburg, having joined in January 2026 after a tenure at Continuing Healthcare of Milan in Bellevue, Ohio, and twelve formative years as Director of Social Services at Bellevue Care Center. Throughout her career, she has managed resident concerns, designed and implemented behavior intervention programs, and conducted a wide range of cognitive and mental health screenings, including BIMS, SLUMS, and PHQ-9 assessments. Her responsibilities have also extended to social determinants of health evaluations, PASARR and Level II evaluations for serious mental illness, trauma-informed care planning, and coordinating safe discharges alongside home health services and medical equipment arrangements.

Messina built her academic foundation at the University of Toledo, where she earned an Associate of Arts in Marketing followed by a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Social Services, giving her a distinctive blend of business acumen and clinical social work training. Her career achievements reflect a consistent record of excellence: she became the first manager in her organization's history to be honored with a Manager of the Year Award in 2025, was named a runner-up for Employee of the Year that same year, and was recognized as the first and only manager at Continuing Healthcare of Milan to receive an Employee of the Month distinction. Adding to these accolades, she maintained deficiency-free survey outcomes for more than twelve years while overseeing operations at Bellevue Care Center, a testament to her meticulous approach to compliance and resident care. Earlier in her career, she also contributed to community welfare as a Service Coordinator with the Buckeye Community Hope Foundation, where she connected tenants with essential services and organized initiatives such as food pantry drives.

Beyond her professional accomplishments, Messina is guided by a deep sense of purpose and compassion, striving to make a meaningful, positive impact on at least one person every single day. She credits her longevity and fulfillment in this demanding field to a mindset of gratitude, treating each day as a new opportunity rather than a routine obligation, and to the boundaries she has learned to set between her professional responsibilities and personal life. Outside of work, she channels her caring nature into animal welfare through her involvement with the Humane Society, supporting rescue and rehoming efforts, while also enjoying gardening, boating, spending time with her adult children, and cheering on the University of Notre Dame. Her career philosophy centers on patience and humility, encouraging newcomers to the field to accept imperfection, pace themselves against burnout, and value collaboration with people of diverse personalities and backgrounds.