Mathison Retirement Community is Bay County's premier faith-inspired, not-for-profit senior independent living and continuum-of-care retirement campus, located on landscaped wooded grounds at 3637 W Highway 390 in North Panama City, Bay County, Florida (ZIP 32405, Independent Living & Marketing Line: 850-367-7507; Main Campus Switchboard: 850-215-4663). Incorporated as active Florida non-profit corporation Mathison Retirement Community, Inc. (Florida Sunbiz Doc# N12000010600, Active) and affiliated with Methodist Homes of Alabama & Northwest Florida (Methodist Home for the Aged, Inc.), Mathison Retirement Community provides older adults across Panama City, Lynn Haven, and Southport with maintenance-free independent living apartments seamlessly integrated with a 100-bed on-site AHCA-licensed Assisted Living and Limited Nursing Services (LNS) continuum.

Independent living residents at Mathison Retirement Community enjoy spacious studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartment residences featuring full kitchens or kitchenettes, energy-efficient appliances, walk-in closets, step-in showers with safety grab bars, and 24-hour emergency call systems—all offered on a month-to-month rental basis without a six-figure CCRC entrance fee. Monthly independent living residency includes chef-prepared restaurant-style dining, weekly housekeeping and flat linen service, all utilities (except personal phone), a dedicated on-site chapel and ecumenical spiritual life programming, library, beauty and barber salon, fitness and wellness classes, scheduled local transportation, and priority access to on-site Assisted Living (AHCA License #AL9945, File #11965612) and outpatient rehabilitation therapy. The campus sits just 2.4 miles north of HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital via Jenks Avenue / Stanford Road.