[Development of the sanitorium from 1945 and the current profile of the Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases and Rehabilitation in Varazdinske Toplice].

It was given a short review concerning the development of our Hospital, especially the period after the Second World War to date. The former bath resort in Varazdinske Toplice, in 1964. grows in a Hospital for rheumatic diseases and rehabilitation. In the course of the following years the institution increases the number and quality of the employees. The year 1965. starts with building of some new functional accommodations, in the year 1973. hotel "Terme" was built and 1981. hotel "Minerva", which is specially appropriated to the programme of the medicine of active recreation. Through the described building up, the number of beds increased to 1200, the number of the staff increased to 850, considering the permanent education of all profiles. Nowdays, it is a modern Hospital for medical rehabilitation, containing appropriate accommodations, staff and equipment.