When options are considered where to go with a child for treatment and rest, one of the first places is Kislovodsk. "Change" is a sanatorium, opened in 1938, and always the main patients of the health resort were children. The hospital has repeatedly received awards, confirming not only historical primacy, but also the right to remain the best in providing medical services for children.
Description
After the revolution, the first children's health resort appeared in the eco-friendly resort zone of the Caucasian Mineral Waters, the city of Kislovodsk became the location. Smena (sanatorium) has long been a health resort, where the Soviet system developed sanatorium treatment programs for the younger generation, gained experience in teaching and pedagogical work on the job of medical services.
On the territory of the health resort there are five residential buildings with comfortable rooms, where children can live in the company of peers or together with their parents. The sanatorium complex is located in a landscaped park area related to the hospital. For children, all the necessary conditions are created - a medical building, classrooms, sports and playgrounds, cultural events and educational work are held.
Medical profile
Each type of patient needs its own conditions to receive the necessary treatment, this was taken into account during the mass arrangement of health resorts in the Caucasian resort, and the city of Kislovodsk was no exception. "Change" (sanatorium) accepts children from the age of four. The oldest age category is 18 years. In the health resort, the priority areas of treatment are:
- Diseases of the bronchi, lungs, respiratory system.
- All types of allergies.
- Diseases of the endocrine and immune systems.
- Neurological diseases.
- Gastrointestinal diseases.
- Diseases related to the cardiological group.
An additional profile is the treatment of concomitant pathologies:
- Diseases of bones, muscles, ligaments.
- Disease prevention, healing the whole body.
The full course of treatment to obtain and consolidate the result, according to experts, should last 21 days, for this period wellness measures are planned in all resorts. This rule applies in all hospitals, most of which are in the city of Kislovodsk. "Change" (sanatorium) for their children's audience offers trips with a maximum period of 21 days, with a minimum of 14 days.
Advisory Center
Sanatorium "Change" (Kislovodsk) brought together under its wing doctors with experience who are highly skilled specialists in childhood diseases. Doctors and consultants are specialists in the following areas:
- Allergologist-immunologist (highest category, kmn).
- Pediatrician, therapist.
- Physiotherapist, cardiologist.
- Gastroenterologist, ENT specialist, pulmonologist.
- Endocrinologist and specialist in neurology.
Much attention is paid to non-drug methods of treatment, the main efforts of medical personnel are aimed at strengthening the child's body, increasing the level of activity. The best way to achieve a result in this direction is physiotherapy. An exercise therapy specialist for each small patient develops an individual training program that helps to achieve the maximum effect in a short time without overvoltage.
Medical base
Before starting to carry out the doctor’s appointments, all guests who arrived at the Smena sanatorium (Kislovodsk) undergo examinations using the hospital’s diagnostic base, where the following tests are performed:
- Clinical biochemistry of the main body fluids.
- Allergotest.
- ECG.
- Functional diagnostics.
- Ultrasound
The treatment base is equipped with the necessary equipment for a range of procedures:
- Healing showers, underwater massage.
- Massages - vibrating, classic general, local, hardware (roller-vacuum STARVAC, complex HAPPYDREAMALL7000).
- Therapeutic baths (pearl, coniferous-pearl, fitovanny, iodine-bromine, etc.).
- Inhalation using a set of drugs (herbal, mineral, medication, etc.).
- Physiotherapy using equipment (darsonval, UHF, bioptron, etc.).
- Halo and speleotherapy, applications with paraffin and healing mud.
Children's Sanatorium "Change" (Kislovodsk) has a specialized center for the treatment of bronchial asthma, where individual and group classes are held. The center services include:
- "Astmashkola" with a program of classes for children and adults.
- Inhalation, oxygen therapy.
- Special breathing practice.
- Tsubo-stone therapy.
- Vacuum massage.
- Teaching and training diaphragmatic breathing.
- Psychological relaxation, phytobar, microclysters.
The best techniques of the general system of healing are combined into sanatorium treatment programs in the following areas:
- Treatment of bronchial asthma.
- COPD
- Weight and body correction.
- Gastroenterology programs.
Contraindications
Not everyone will benefit from staying at the resort, it is worth consulting with a specialist before heading to Kislovodsk. “Change” (sanatorium) does not accept children with the following diseases for treatment:
- Chronic protracted pneumonia complicated by bronchial diseases.
- Frequent, pronounced spasms of the bronchi.
- Severe bronchial asthma (hormone therapy is used in the treatment).
- Chronic respiratory failure (at any stage of the disease, course).
- Cardiovascular diseases.
- Circulatory diseases.
- Rheumatism (2, 3 degree).
Residence
The Smena children's sanatorium (Kislovodsk) has an extensive housing fund where children can live with their peers or with their parents. In five buildings of the resort rooms are equipped with the following categories:
- Building №5 has rooms for 4-6 people. A bathroom is located on the floor, a TV in the common game room, one refrigerator for several rooms.
- Case number 3. The rooms can accommodate 2-3 people, a refrigerator and a bathroom - shared on one floor, a TV is in the games room.
- Case number 4. Here are the standard rooms for double occupancy, which are provided with a refrigerator and TV. Bathroom on the floor. The second variant of settlement in the building is the improved planning rooms, consisting of two rooms (bathroom, refrigerator, TV in the room).
- Case number 1. It has single and double rooms of improved layout, where the room has its own bathroom, a TV and a refrigerator are provided.
All trips to a health institution are implemented only with the condition of treatment. The healing factor is the climate and mineral springs, which Kislovodsk is famous for.
Sanatorium "Change" prices for a full board with medical care offers quite affordable. You need to pay from 1670 to 2500 rubles per day, depending on the category of room.
Documents for settlement
Many ancient resorts have tried and effective methods of treatment, and the balneological zone where the city of Kislovodsk is located is no exception. Sanatorium "Smena" accepts for treatment and rehabilitation of children unaccompanied by parents. For the younger generation, such a step will be useful - the first experience of an independent life will be held under the supervision of the pedagogical staff of the hospital and in the company of peers. For arrival at the health resort the following documents are required:
- Sanatorium-resort card.
- Copies of birth certificates, passports of parents (one of the parents is enough).
- Copy of medical insurance policy and certificate of vaccination.
- Dermatological information, certificate of epidemiological environment.
- Help with enterobiosis analysis data.
- Extract from the medical history, test data not older than 2 months (history).
For adults, documents are required:
- Sanatorium-resort card.
- Help about the epidemiological environment.
- Copy of passport and medical insurance policy.
- X-ray, made no later than 2 months before arrival at the sanatorium.
Reviews
During the entire history of the health resort, many children came for treatment to the Smena sanatorium (Kislovodsk). Reviews of children are few, but full of enthusiasm about the city, excursions, delicious oxygen cocktails and peer society. Adults say that the treatment base of the sanatorium is sufficient, and if you follow all the doctor’s instructions, the result will be positive. Four meals a day for children are quite sufficient, and, as parents assure, tasty. Adults also did not starve and noted the skill of cooks in the preparation of dietary dishes.
Negative reviews were addressed to poor-quality cleaning, the need to go to some procedures in the building across the street. Most parents are ready to send the child to the health resort again.