Costa Rica Blue Zone Hosting Medical Travel Summit

March 27, 2013 - PRLog -- "Blue Zones" are areas of the world recently identified around the world as containing the most centegenerians  per capita in the world. Meaning those people that live well into their hundreds. The Nicoya peninsula of Costa Rica is one such "Blue Zone."

While medical care in Costa Rica does not explain the whole phenomenon of having some of the world’s longest lived people the quality of care in Costa Rica has beat out that of the United States recently in a report compiled by the Joint Commission International, the world’s foremost hospital and healthcare accreditation institution.

To this end the Promed Council (The Council for the International Promotion of Costa Rica Medicine) is trumpeting the benefits of the quality of Costa Rican healthcare at this year International Medical Travel and Business Summit. The fourth year for this world acclaimed event. Promed is inviting buyers of healthcare from all over the world to sample the modern machine that is the combination of travel and health care often called either "Medical Travel" or Medical Tourism." Costa Rica is well known for tourism activities. One of the missions of Promed is to train the tourism operators and their employees to be sharp in medical travel cases. They have developed a  of standard operating procedure for people that work with medical travelers.

The Medical Travel Summit has become quite a big deal over the years and this year is no different. Buyers of healthcare including large insurance companies, self-insured corporations and medical travel facilitators from all over the world will be hosted in elegant style by the Los Suenos Marriott at Playa Herradura near Jaco. A mere stones throw from the aforementioned "Blue Zone." If you are a potential buyer of healthcare you will not want to miss the beautiful and fine potential of what Costa Rica medical travel has to offer with regards to healthcare at http://www.healthcheckcostarica.com, not the least of which is the key to the fountain of youth.