Kouter Clinic (Dr. Rudolf Vertriest)
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 77.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #12 of 19 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Aesthetic-medicine practice in Ghent combining Dr. Rudolf Vertriest, a plastic surgeon also head of department at AZ Maria Middelares, with a separate aesthetic-dentistry practitioner. The physician is found in the federal specialist-board register under plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery.
Registers read for the jurisdiction: VL.
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 Found, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. Found in HealthPro (FPS Public Health) with speciality MBS45 (plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery), status current. [healthpro] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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 Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by NIHDI number 11938027; federal visa dated 2005-09-05. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [healthpro] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 20 September 2026 — recordsTotal 0 on every leg. The register covers the whole of Flanders, where this treatment address lies, and the positive control Name=Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent returned recordsTotal 2 in the same session. Belgian law recognises hospitals, not private clinics, so the absence of a row is the expected state and is not a finding about this clinic. Queried in the Flemish care-facility register (CoBRHA Viewer) by enterprise number and by name; no row returned. Belgian law recognises hospitals, not private clinics, so this axis carries no value for a private practice. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-20 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The clinic names the legal entity or the responsible person in its legal notice and the record is found by name; or the number the clinic publishes leads to an entity with a different name that is tied to this location by the same address or the same responsible person. Legal entity 'Dr. RUDOLF VERTRIEST, plastische heelkunde' matched by name and VAT number in an official-register-linked business directory; not independently re-queried in KBO/BCE this session. [letsconnect] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, facility or company registration numbers published on the clinic's own site. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. About-us page checked; no lexicon terms found. [site] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents One. One of the five classes is published: informed consent, stated as practice on the 3D-lab page, where the clinic says procedures are carried out only once the patient gives consent after being fully informed, with the pre-operative simulation described as part of that information. No risks or contraindications section, aftercare instructions, revision policy or complaint route was found. Pages loaded on 2026-09-20: /, /over-ons, /behandelingen, /chirurgie-2, /tandheelkunde, /3d-lab, /blog, /contact and /behandelingen/tattooverwijdering. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
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. Rudolf Vertriest [site] [healthpro] | Plastic surgeon; head of department of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, AZ Maria Middelares | 11938027 |
Legal entity: Dr. RUDOLF VERTRIEST, plastische heelkunde · 0820133020 [letsconnect]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: could not verify
- Breast surgery: could not verify
- Liposuction & body contouring: could not verify
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: could not verify
- Medical weight loss: could not verify
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- 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://kouterclinic.be/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +32 (0)9 330 90 00 |
| Address | Kouter 7A/3, 9000 Gent |
| City | Ghent |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://kouterclinic.be/over-ons | clinic's own site | physician name, role, treatments, address, advertising text | 31 August 2026 |
| healthpro | https://apps.health.belgium.be/healthpro-search-engine/api/professi… | official register | specialist certification MBS45, federal visa, NIHDI number | 31 August 2026 |
| letsconnect | https://letsconnect.be/en-be/companies/dr-rudolf-vertriest-plastisc… | secondary | company name, VAT number, address | 31 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M9: null → 2 (Completed presence check of the five patient-document classes on the clinic pages (v1.2 loop pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the CoBRHA Viewer of the Flemish Departement Zorg (v1.2 loop pass 1).) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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