The EU Cross-Border Healthcare Directive gives you the right to rehabilitation in another EU country, with the cost claimed back from the HSE. We'll guide you from referral to reimbursement.
Evexia Plus is a 287-bed Rehabilitation Hospital on the Halkidiki coast in Greece, about 20 minutes from Thessaloniki airport, and family-run since 1996. You stay with us as an inpatient for rehabilitation after a stroke or a brain or spinal cord injury, or with MS, Parkinson's, FND, an orthopaedic or another neurological condition. We treat children too. A physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation leads every programme, with at least 3 hours of therapy a day. There is no waiting list, and your stay is reimbursable by the HSE under the EU Cross-Border Healthcare Directive.
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There is no waiting list. Once our physician has reviewed your medical records, the date is up to you. No medical card or private insurance needed.
Every member of staff communicates in English: the physicians who lead your care, the nurses on every shift and your therapists.
One family member stays free, in your room. Other relatives can book their own stay in seaside hotels five minutes away.
24-hour medical and nursing cover, an on-site laboratory, X-ray and ultrasound, a three-pool hydrotherapy complex, and robotic and virtual reality therapy.
Your stay is reimbursable by the HSE. We guide you through every step, support you with every document your claim needs, and provide a full report for your doctors in Ireland.
Set by your rehabilitation physician and reviewed with you every week.
A physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation plans every programme around your condition and your goals. Choose a condition to see what we work on, how a stay is planned and what the HSE reimburses.
Stroke
Traumatic brain injury
Spinal cord injury
Multiple sclerosis
Parkinson's disease
Functional neurological disorder
Cauda equina syndrome
Other neurological conditions
Paediatric rehabilitation
Orthopaedic rehabilitationNot listed? Call us on 01 263 3051. We look at every case individually, and if Evexia Plus is not the right place for you, we tell you.
All conditions we treatUnder the EU Cross-Border Healthcare Directive, inpatient rehabilitation at Evexia Plus is reimbursable by the HSE if you are entitled to public healthcare in Ireland. You pay the hospital directly, then claim the cost back. You don't need a medical card or private insurance.
A referral letter from your GP, or from a hospital consultant who sees you as a public patient.
In person, dated after the referral: with a public consultant in Ireland or, as we recommend, with our physician on a day before admission, with no wait for an outpatient appointment in Ireland.
It gives an indicative figure, not a guarantee, and the HSE's reply can take months. We usually advise going ahead without it.
You travel to Evexia Plus for your inpatient programme and pay the hospital directly, after a written estimate in English. One family member stays free.
With the documents we give you at discharge. The HSE repays what you paid, up to what the same care would cost in the Irish public system.
At discharge, we give you every document the claim needs.
Physiotherapy with robotic gait training, occupational therapy with robotic arm and hand systems, speech and language therapy and psychology, planned as one programme around your goals, with rest built into the day.
Our rehabilitation services
Two indoor pools and an outdoor pool, with ramps and hoists into the water. Aquatic physiotherapy is part of many programmes, once your physician confirms it suits you.
Hydrotherapy at Evexia Plus
One family member stays free, in your room. Other relatives can book their own stay in Kallikratia, five minutes away. Meals are planned by a dietician, and every member of staff communicates in English.
From the first call to the day you go home, you have one Health Advisor: your single point of contact for everything, and for everyone involved, from your family to your doctors in Ireland.
Rooms, therapy halls, pools and the places your family will spend time.
Every programme is led by a physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and delivered by one team working to a shared plan. Every member of staff communicates in English.
Rehabilitation physicians lead, with 24-hour medical cover.
Five physicians in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation lead the programmes. Four internal medicine physicians give 24-hour medical cover, with two cardiologists, a neurologist, an orthopaedic surgeon, a pneumonologist and a radiologist on staff, and other specialties on call.
From physiotherapy to speech therapy and psychology.
Physiotherapists, on land and in the pools, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, and psychologists and neuropsychologists. They set your goals with you and review them every week.
Rehabilitation nurses day and night, and dieticians.
Rehabilitation nurses on every shift, day and night, and dieticians who plan your meals.
2,500+ stories of what recovery really feels like, written by the people who lived it.
Jasoo
★★★★★
The staff is very polite,kind and attentive. My father is in physiotherapy ward and all the staff cares a lot about him and is very friendly and supportive. The treatment is very good. My father’s right side was paralysed and now he can walk own his own.Read on Google
Magdalena Boeva
★★★★★
After difficult operation of acetabulum and hip I couldn't choose better place then this.(enought is to see the surrounding and enterier inside and of the rooms) Everyday with big happiness i wait for my physiotherapy,as is helping me very much,..not to talk about the girls working there,who are so kind and with smile giving everything of themself in order to help us to become normal.I am thinking how much effort and strenght you need to be in their place and after all pain they see from patients,still to be able to smile .... The rest of the stuff is also very ptofesional and good,so i am reccomanding the place and i wish you to make this choice as i did,as you will not regret.Read on Google
Nele Engfer
★★★★★
A wonderful, peaceful place. My grandmother was very well taken care of, and we felt she was in safe and loving hands. The staff was kind, attentive, and professional. Highly recommended.Read on Google
Jiros Mpampassou
★★★★★
My mother in law was hospitalized after a stroke at the rehabilitation center. At first things didn't look good but after the good work of Siskos Alexios my mother in law improved tremendously and was able to return to her daily lifeRead on Google
Julie Feok
★★★★★
we really love this center, there’s a very good service, friendly and helpful people working there, always take care of all your preferences. We always come back here when we are in GreeceRead on Google
Rebecca Tsoukana
★★★★★
Everything was excellent and very professional. This rehabilitation center deserves the highest rating. My injury was a broken hip and after physio and hydro therapy, I was able to return home and walk with little assistance up the flight of stairs to my home. I thank all those involved in my recovery, my physio therapists, my hydro therapist, the nurses and doctors and all the staff. I highly recommend this center.Read on Google
Evexia Plus is in Greece, on the Halkidiki coast, about 20 minutes from Thessaloniki airport. Everything before you travel is arranged from home, wherever you live in the Republic of Ireland: a phone call or WhatsApp message, your medical records by email, and a referral letter from your own GP.
Wherever you start, we meet you at Thessaloniki airport, and the transfer to Evexia Plus is free for you and your family. Flights, and family accommodation outside the hospital, are not reimbursable by the HSE.
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You don't have to wait for one. There is no waiting list at Evexia Plus: once our physician has reviewed your medical records, you choose your admission date. Your stay is reimbursable by the HSE under the EU Cross-Border Healthcare Directive, and you can call us while you are still on a list in Ireland.
Anyone ordinarily resident in the Republic of Ireland who is entitled to public healthcare. You don't need a medical card, and having private health insurance doesn't exclude you. The claim is made in the patient's name.
No. The Treatment Abroad Scheme is a separate HSE scheme for treatment that isn't available in Ireland, and it needs approval before you travel. Rehabilitation at Evexia Plus comes under the EU Cross-Border Healthcare Directive: you pay the hospital, then claim the cost back from the HSE.
What you paid, up to what the same care would cost in the Irish public system. Before you commit, our team sends you a written estimate in English, so you can plan.
After it has assessed your claim, using the documents we give you at discharge. Repayment currently takes several months, so plan to pay for the stay first. Our How it works page sets out each step.
No. You can call us first, and we tell you what the referral letter should say. Before treatment, you need one from your GP, or from a hospital consultant who sees you as a public patient.
No, it is optional. It gives an indicative figure, not a guarantee, and the HSE's reply can take months. We usually advise going ahead without it, because the HSE assesses every claim after treatment either way.
Not quite. Step-down or convalescent care usually means rest and nursing support while you get stronger. Evexia Plus is a Rehabilitation Hospital: active treatment, with at least 3 hours of therapy a day led by a rehabilitation physician. You can come to us after a hospital stay in Ireland, once your doctors say you are fit to travel.
No. Everything is arranged the same way from Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford or anywhere else in the Republic of Ireland. Only the flight differs: Dublin has the direct flight to Thessaloniki, and the other airports connect through a European hub.
Doctors and nurses are on site 24 hours a day, with an on-site laboratory, X-ray and ultrasound. If hospital care is ever needed, Thessaloniki's university hospitals are about 30 minutes away by ambulance.
Occupational therapy prepares a plan for home, and we send a discharge letter to your GP or consultant in Ireland. You also leave with every document your HSE claim needs.
