Wellness Kliniek Genk
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 70.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #19 of 19 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Multi-service plastic-surgery and aesthetic-dentistry clinic in Genk. Dr. Romuald Taraquois, one of the clinic's plastic surgeons, is found in the federal specialist-board register under plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. The clinic's own text makes a promotional statement about the surgeons it selects.
Registers read for the jurisdiction: VL.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 4.3 out of 5 · reviews: 1,001 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 2 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address, the clinic's phone number.
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. Named plastic surgeon Romuald Taraquois 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. Physician has a dedicated CV page naming role and clinic tie; the general about-us page names 'Chirurgen en Specialisten' as a group without listing individuals. [cv] |
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 17993005; federal visa dated 2018-10-09. [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 Spronken Group matched by name in KBO/BCE; registered seat address differs from the clinic's treatment address. [kbo] |
OFF | 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; ISO 9001/27001 certification claimed without a verifiable issuer link. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Systematic superlatives; systematic safety promises without an absolute; absolutes about the past (success rates, “no infection since …”, satisfaction figures, “we guarantee your satisfaction”); comparisons with surgery. A section heading on the clinic’s own about page makes a superlative pledge about the surgeon the patient will get; the sentence under it explains that the clinic selects the physician to fit the patient’s wishes. The pledge concerns the choice of surgeon, not an outcome or safety, so it is read as promotional wording (fleet reading 2026-09-19). Quoted as evidence. [site] We garanderen je de beste chirurg |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Some facts appear on only one front. Mechanical comparison of 4 language fronts (nl, en, fr, de) on 2026-09-21: physician "Dr. Romuald Taraquois" on nl/en/de only; a phone number appears on one front only. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-21 | |
| M9 | Patient documents One. Aftercare (24/7 follow-up) published; the other four document classes (consent, risks, revision policy, complaint route) were not found on the pages checked. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-31 |
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] [cv] |
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. Romuald Taraquois [cv] [healthpro] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon | 17993005 |
Legal entity: Spronken Group · 0800979379 [site-legal] [kbo]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
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://www.wellnesskliniek.com/nl |
|---|---|
| Phone | +32 (0)89 32 95 00 |
| Address | Grotestraat 42, 3600 Genk |
| City | Genk |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.wellnesskliniek.com/nl/info/over-de-wellness-kliniek | clinic's own site | treatments offered, advertising text, legal entity, aftercare claim | 31 August 2026 |
| cv | https://www.wellnesskliniek.com/fr/infos/chirurgiens-et-specialiste… | clinic's own site | physician name, role, training background | 31 August 2026 |
| site-legal | https://www.spronkengroup.com/en/companies-brands/wellness-kliniek | clinic's own site | legal entity name and enterprise number | 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 |
| kbo | https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/toonondernemingps.html?lang=… | official register | legal entity, registration number, seat address | 31 August 2026 |
| fronts | https://www.wellnesskliniek.com/nl | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — nl: https://www.wellnesskliniek.com/nl | en: https://www.wellnesskliniek.com/en | fr: https://www.wellnesskliniek.com/fr | de: https://www.wellnesskliniek.com/de | 21 September 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.M7: 2 → 3 (Operator audit: fleet M7 reading of 2026-09-19 applied to the quoted wording; the cap flag that rested on it is withdrawn) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the CoBRHA Viewer of the Flemish Departement Zorg (v1.2 loop pass 1).) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 3 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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.