Health tourism

Health tourism in the Crikvenica area started as early as the 19th century thanks to the excellent local conditions: a beneficial Mediterranean climate and microclimate, fresh air, clean sea, and beautiful unspoilt natural surroundings. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, two of Crikvenica's large hotels, the Archduke Joseph (today the Kvarner Palace) and the Miramare, were the first to open hydropathic establishments. This period also saw the opening of a number of health institutions for adults and children (Ladislav's Children's Home, the Czech Colony, Mojmir, etc.) and specialist sanatoriums (the Dr. Seidl Sanatorium, the Villa Ružica Teacher's Sanatorium etc.) The area's Health Commission was established in accordance with the new Law on Health Care on the 25th of March 1906, the same year that Crikvenica was officially declared a climatic health and sea resort. The Primorka Recovery Centre for Convalescent Children was opened in the former building of the Czech Colony in 1953. Then in 1960, the Institute for Adult Thalassotherapy, for the prevention and rehabilitation of upper and lower respiratory tract diseases, was opened in the Hotel Therapia. In 1967, the Institute for Thalassotherapy Crikvenica and the Primorka Recovery Centre merged into one hospital, known as Thalassotherapia Crikvenica since 1995. The medical part of the Thalassotherapia consists of four departments: the Children's Department, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, and the Pulmonary-Internal Department. In September 2009, the Polyclinic for Baromedicine OXY was opened as part of the Thalassotherapia, the only such centre in the Kvarner region. Of the private health institutes in the area, the following are particularly important: the Katunar Polyclinic in Crikvenica, which includes a medical clinic for tourists and offers various specialist services; and the Terme Selce Polyclinic in Selce, which offers numerous therapeutic and prevention programmes, especially in the fields of physical medicine and rehabilitation of sport injuries.

Thalassotherapia Crikvenica

Gajevo šetalište 21, 51260 Crikvenica
Telephone: +385 51 407-666, fax: +385 51 785-062
www.thalasso-ck.hr e-mail: info@thalasso-ck.hr

Polyclinic for Baromedicine OXY

Clinic Crikvenica, Gajevo šetalište 21, 51260 Crikvenica
Telephone/fax: +385 (0)51 785 229
E-mail: poliklinika.ck@oxy.hr

Terme Selce

Katunar Polyclinic