Palacio's Medical Services
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 60.2/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #6 of 13 ranked clinics · last checked 19 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Medical and surgical practice in Kingston whose cosmetic-surgery menu covers facelift, liposuction, blepharoplasty, breast and abdominal procedures. The responsible physician is named with his training on the clinic's own site and matched by name in the Medical Council of Jamaica's public register.
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 | 5 out of 5 · reviews: 38 |
|---|---|
| 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.
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 Not applicable: this country has no Specialist board register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-19 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Physician named with role, training and address on the clinic's own site (dedicated biography page). [site] [site-doctor] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-19 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Medical Council of Jamaica register: Robert Palacio Reyes, registered 2016, parish St. Ann; name matches the physician named on the clinic's social-media pages. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit short_number) — matched by name] [mcj] |
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, 18 September 2026 — No match among the ~33 facilities registered under the Nursing Homes Registration Act as at 31-Mar-2024 (the register lists an unrelated facility at 47 Lady Musgrave Road); an office-based practice is not covered by this register. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-19 |
| 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. Scan of the home, location, appointment, service and physician pages found no legal entity, company number or privacy/terms page; the footer copyright line carries no entity name. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-19 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Physician qualifications and training institutions published (General Practitioner 2004, Master of Sciences in Emergency Medicine 2009, Plastic Surgeon and Burn Therapist 2011); no licence, facility or company numbers published. [site-doctor] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-19 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Two soft superlatives on the home page; no outcome or safety guarantee and no "100%"-class statement found on the pages scanned. [site] The Optimun Medical And Surgical Practice Care |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-19 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 19 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-19 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. Pages loaded: home, Location, Appointment, Cosmetic Surgery, Reconstructive Surgery, Wounds and Burn Treatment, Allergy, General Surgery, Family Medicine, both physician pages and the 40 procedure pages served by the site’s own page index. No informed-consent, risk-disclosure, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route document published. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-19 |
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] [site-doctor] [facebook] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [site-doctor] [facebook] [instagram] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] [site-doctor] [facebook] [instagram] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] [site-doctor] [facebook] [instagram] [mcj] |
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. Robert Palacio Reyes [site-doctor] [instagram] [mcj] | Plastic Surgeon and Burn Therapist | 3069 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site-cosmetic] [facebook]
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://palaciosmedicalservices.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 876-995-8986 |
| Address | Suite 12, 34 Lady Musgrave Road, Kingston, Jamaica |
| City | Kingston |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://www.facebook.com/palaciosplasticsurgeryjamaica/ | clinic's own site | business name, address, phone, follower count, procedures advertised | 1 September 2026 | |
| https://www.instagram.com/palacios_plastic_surgery/ | clinic's own site | physician name and role (page bio: 'Plastic Surgeon & Burn Therapist') | 1 September 2026 | |
| mcj | https://medicalcouncilja.com/find-a-doctor/?jsf=jet-data-table&meta… | official register | medical licence register match, data-item-object 3069 | 1 September 2026 |
| site | https://palaciosmedicalservices.com/ | clinic's own site | practice name, address, phone, physician list, service menu | 19 September 2026 |
| site-doctor | https://palaciosmedicalservices.com/?page_id=112 | clinic's own site | physician biography, specialty and training | 19 September 2026 |
| site-cosmetic | https://palaciosmedicalservices.com/?page_id=100 | clinic's own site | cosmetic-surgery procedure list | 19 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 short_number) — matched by name) |
| 19 September 2026 | summary: null → null (Rewritten from the clinic's own website now that one is on record.) |
| 19 September 2026 | name: "Palacio's Plastic Surgery" → "Palacio's Medical Services" (Renamed to the practice name published on its own website, now on record.) |
| 19 September 2026 | axes.M8.nullReason: "single_front" → "retry" (Own website now on record; the earlier single_front verdict rested on there being no website to compare (mechanical re-run due).) |
| 19 September 2026 | axes.M9: null → 1 (Re-run against the clinic site (v1.2 pass 2): complete scan of the newly attached website; none of the five document classes published.) |
| 19 September 2026 | axes.M7: 5 → 4 (Re-run against the clinic site (v1.2 pass 2): lexicon scan of the newly attached website found two soft superlatives in the clinic’s own copy.) |
| 19 September 2026 | axes.M6: 1 → 2 (Re-run against the clinic site (v1.2 pass 2): the newly attached website publishes the physicians’ qualifications.) |
| 19 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-run against the clinic site (v1.2 pass 2): full scan of the newly attached website found no legal entity named (brand only anchor, v1.2 § 2 rule 4).) |
| 19 September 2026 | axes.M2: 4 → 5 (Re-run against the clinic site (v1.2 pass 2): own website now on record, physician named with role on a dedicated page and tied to this address.) |
| 19 September 2026 | segments.weightLoss: null → false (Re-read from the menu published on the clinic's own site (pass 2).) |
| 19 September 2026 | segments.injectables: null → false (Re-read from the menu published on the clinic's own site (pass 2).) |
| 19 September 2026 | segments.hairTransplant: null → false (Re-read from the menu published on the clinic's own site (pass 2).) |
| 19 September 2026 | segments.rhinoplasty: null → false (Re-read from the menu published on the clinic's own site (pass 2).) |
| 19 September 2026 | contacts.website: null → "https://palaciosmedicalservices.com/" (Own website found via the operator's map pass and confirmed on the site's own pages (same address, phone and physician as the record).) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5.attempt / axes.M9.attempt: null → null (Re-run against clinic_site (v1.1 pass 1): Facebook/Instagram now serve JS-rendered shells with no extractable text without a browser session; remains retry.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against facility_registry (v1.1 pass 1): full-text search of the current MoHW registered-facilities PDF, no match; nullReason retry -> not_found.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M8.nullReason: "retry" → "single_front" (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): no website on record is single_front, not retry) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1.nullReason: "retry" → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): specialist_board class not published in this country: axis not applicable) |
| 1 September 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.