Verona Medical Center
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 46.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #19 of 20 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Plastic-surgery clinic in Ciudad del Sol, Guayaquil. The founding surgeon is named with role and is tied to this address. He appears in an open professional-society member roll for the Guayas chapter.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: secpre_guayas, 18 September 2026 — found. SECPRE Capítulo Guayas member roll lists 'LOPEZ MENDIETA LUIS CORNELIO', matching the surgeon the clinic names (Dr. Luis López Mendieta). No ISAPS Ecuador entry. Association provenance, carried as a fact. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: secpre_guayas, 18 September 2026 — no registration number published on the clinic's own pages, and no society route carries one for this physician (the SECPRE Guayas roll publishes names only; the SECPRE Pichincha directory has no entry for them; ISAPS publishes no numbers). |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: clinic_published_permit, 18 September 2026 — no operating-permit number is published on the clinic's own pages, and the SRI establishment endpoint cannot be entered without a RUC — the clinic publishes none — and would in any case prove only a registered tax establishment, never a health permit. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-18 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. A complete scan of the clinic's own pages found no legal entity and no registration number — the practice trades under the name Verona Medical Center, a trading name without a company form, and no RUC is published anywhere on the site. Pages loaded 2026-09-18: https://drluislopez.com/, https://drluislopez.com/dr-luis-lopez-mendieta/, https://drluislopez.com/contactos/. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. The site states society memberships (SECPRE, ASPS) without registration numbers or issuers. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty An unconditional absolute about the patient's future safety or the treatment outcome — zero risk, no complications, “100% safe”, “result guaranteed” — in the clinic's own rendered text (bright line; cap 65). The clinic's own text states that its approach and technology guarantee exceptional results for its patients, an outcome guarantee. Pages loaded 2026-09-18: https://drluislopez.com/, https://drluislopez.com/dr-luis-lopez-mendieta/, https://drluislopez.com/contactos/. [site] Su enfoque integral y personalizado, junto con el uso de tecnología avanzada, garantiza resultados excepcionales para sus pacientes. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 18 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No informed-consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route document was found. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-31 |
Score ceilings
- Outcome guarantee or ‘100% safe’-class statement — ceiling 65/100The clinic's own page https://drluislopez.com/dr-luis-lopez-mendieta/ (es, 2026-09-18) states: “Su enfoque integral y personalizado, junto con el uso de tecnología avanzada, garantiza resultados excepcionales para sus pacientes.”. Under this methodology an outcome guarantee caps the score at 65.[site]
Ceilings are applied only from verified-false findings with the exact quote or register entry cited. The clinic has a right of reply; a statement with a source changes the data, a statement without one is shown next to it.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Luis López Mendieta [site] [secpre] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon, founder | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECFound in the SECPRE Capítulo Guayas open member roll as LOPEZ MENDIETA LUIS CORNELIO; association provenance caps this cell at 2.[secpre]
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECSECPRE Capítulo Guayas publishes 'LOPEZ MENDIETA LUIS CORNELIO' on its member roll, matching the surgeon named on the clinic site.
[secpre]LOPEZ MENDIETA LUIS CORNELIO
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — Register closed to machine queries
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Register closed to machine queries
- M4 · Facility registration — Register closed to machine queries
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://drluislopez.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +593 96 747 3158 |
| Address | Ciudad del Sol, Edificio Solaris, Piso 8, Guayaquil |
| City | Guayaquil |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://drluislopez.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, address, menu, advertising text | 18 September 2026 |
| secpre | https://secpreguayas.com/Miembros/miembros.html | secondary | LOPEZ MENDIETA LUIS CORNELIO listed among the Guayas chapter's 78 members | 30 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 2 (Re-run: the clinic's live pages re-loaded and re-scanned for the advertising lexicon (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: 2 → 2 (Re-scored on the v1.2 M5 ladder (pass 1): the ladder measures what the clinic itself publishes, and this clinic names no legal entity — an entity located through a register or a directory does not raise M5) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-typed from retry to registry_closed (v1.2 pass 1): the ACESS facility register is captcha-gated behind a geo-block and the secondary routes were run) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Re-typed from retry to registry_closed (v1.2 pass 1): the ACESS licence register is captcha-gated behind a geo-block and the secondary routes were run) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → null (Secondary routes for the closed specialist register re-run (v1.2 pass 1): ISAPS Ecuador, SECPRE Guayas, SECPRE Pichincha) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: 2 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): M1 is not scored where the country's specialist register is closed; the secondary finding moved to facts[]) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
| 30 August 2026 | axes.M7: 4 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://drluislopez.com/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.