144 Business View Magazine - April 2016
Mission Oaks Assisted Living
Life defined
Mission Oaks is an assisted living, respite care, and
memory care community in Oxford, Florida, licensed by
the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. The
facility opened in May, 2010, and is managed by Health
Care Managers, Inc., of Fernandina Beach, Florida. Ox-
ford is a small, unincorporated community in Sumter
County, west of The Villages, a master-planned, retire-
ment community of over 50,000. Before Mission Oaks
was built, there were few facilities available for the el-
derly family members of The Villages’ many citizens.
According to Shelly Bowman, Mission Oaks’ Director of
Marketing, while the facility draws its residents from
all over, it also attracts many of them from families
in The Villages and similar, nearby retirement com-
munities. “Many times, they’re bringing their parents
down from the north because they want them closer,”
she says. “But we also pull in from the area. Many
potential residents, themselves, used to live in these
retirement communities, and now they’re looking for
assisted living. So, it’s a real combination of families
