How to find a doctor in Costa Rica?
How to find a doctor in Costa Rica?
As you know, Costa Rica has excellent healthcare. Costa Rica’s leading hospitals are accredited by the Joint Commission International, Ministro de Salud de Costa Rica (Costa Rican Ministry of Health), which issues local licenses for Habilitacien Hospitalaria, and local authorities such as the Municipio de Escazu in San Jose, which issue Funcionamento licenses. CIMA Clinic and several others are owned and operated by leading American medical corporations.
Finding a good dentist in Costa Rica is not difficult.
You can search the Internet, ask other people, or visit the official Costa Rica medical association or the official Costa Rica dental association.
You can follow the links below and select the doctor you are interested in:
http://www.colegiodentistas.org/sitCol/
Private Hospitals in Costa Rica
Clinica Biblica
Address: Avenue 14 street 1, San José, Costa Rica Tel: (506) 2522-1000
Fax: (506) 2258-7184
Email: consejomedico@clinicabiblica.com
* They accept several U. S. health insurance plans
Clinica Catolica
Address: Next to the court of justice in San Antonio de Guadalupe, Goicochea, Costa Rica
Tel: (506) 2246-3000.
Fax: (506) 2246-3184.
Email: servicioalcliente@hospitallacatolica.com
Hospital CIMA
Address: Barrio Los Laureles, San Rafael de Escazu, Costa Rica
Tel: 2208-1000
Email: www.hospitalsanjose.net/contactenos.aspx
*They accept several U.S. health insurance plans.
Hospital CIMA (Pacific plaza) Guanacaste
Address: 6.5 miles from Liberia International Airport, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Tel: (506) 2690-8500
Hospital Metropolitano
Address:
San José: 300 mts South Hospital San Juan de Dios, Avenue 8 Street 14
Tibas: 400 m Este de la Iglesia Católica de Tibás.
Tel:
Main: (506) 2521-9595
San José: (506) 2521-9500
Torre Médica San José: (506) 2521-9797
Email: info@hospitalmetropolitano.co.cr
Public Hospitals in Costa Rica
The Costa Rican Department of Social Insurance or Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (as it is known in Spanish) is in charge of most of the nation’s public health sector. Its role in public health (as the administrator of health institutions) is key in Costa Rica, playing an important part in the state’s national health policy making.
Hospital San Juan de Dios
Address: Avenue 14, streets 6 y 7. Paseo Colón, San José.
Tel: (506) 2258-4392 or (506) 2436-1125
Fax: (506) 2258-7184
Email: cservsjd@ccss.sa.cr
Hospital Mexico Hospital
Address: Avenue 14, streets 6 y 7. Paseo Colón, San José.
Tel: (506) 2242-6700 or (506) 2232-1285 or (506) 2242-6680
Fax: (506) 2258-7184
Email: dmontero@ccss.sa.cr
Hospital Dr. Rafael Calderón Guardia
Address: Avenue 7 – 9, streets 15 -17 Barrio Aranjuez, San José
Tel: 2212-1000, 2212-1100, 2212-1227
Email: lphernan@ccss.sa.cr
Hospital Nacional de Niños Carlos Sáenz Herrera
Address: Avenue 0, Street 20, Paseo Colón, San José San José
Central: (506) 2523-3600, (506) 2256-0093, (506) 2223-1601
Email: rhernandezg@hnn.sa.cr