In strengthening health spa treatment plays a crucial role. Our country has vast and varied wealth of resort - areas with special climatic conditions, mineral springs and curative mud. From year to year, the network of health centers, improving health and cultural services patients in the resorts. Along with health centers located in the resorts, the big role played by local suburban sanatorium outside the resorts that are in the nature of the specialized health care institutions (sanatoria for the treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease, patients with diseases of the digestive system, tuberculosis, etc.).The modern spa is a health care setting with a fairly complex structure and organization of health services. It is advisable that the patients came here immediately after treatment in hospitals in order to secure the success of hospital treatment, ie, the resort has become one of the links in the phase of treatment: hospital - health - Health Centre.Methods of treatment in sanatoria have their own characteristics - there is much emphasis on medical factors such as diet therapy, spa treatments, mud baths and other methods of physiotherapy, exercise therapy, in combination with a good rest and a full impact of environmental factors.Medical selection of patients for sanatorium treatment rests with the physician in conjunction with the head of the department clinic, dispensary. The attending physician gives the patient at the hands of a certificate of need for sanatorium treatment, indicating the recommended type of resort, and after getting sick tour - sanatorium and resort map, which is valid for two months.In some cases, patients can be recommended to use the local resorts and spas, located closer to their place of residence, the climatic conditions are more common and do not require acclimation of the organism, not to mention the fact that a long trip (flight) with a number of diseases can be bad for the general condition of the patient. It is a mistake and perception among some people opinion that spa treatment is more effective in the summer months, because it is proved that the majority of diseases, which shows a spa treatment, with the same (and sometimes with a lot) can be successfully treated in the winter months.The classification of resorts put their leading medical factors: climatic conditions, mineral water, therapeutic mud. In accordance with these resorts are divided into three types: climatic, balneological and mud (many resorts can be considered mixed, there are various treatment factors).