The Skin Health Institute
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 58.2/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #10 of 12 ranked clinics · last checked 19 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Aesthetic-medicine and cosmetic-dermatology clinic at Anderson Terrace, Port of Spain. Four service lines are published: aesthetic medicine (consultation, skin assessment, botulinum toxin, dermal fillers, chemical peels), a laser clinic, medical aesthetics and a men’s service. The founder and medical director is named with her role and qualifications, and she appears in the national medical register; the operating company is matched by name in the companies 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 | 4.9 out of 5 · reviews: 460 |
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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 4 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 in the register with a current status; the register does not disclose the specialty, or discloses a different one (including “no specialisation”), and the clinic claims no protected title. The register's own line is shown on the profile. MBTT National Register, matched by surname and given name: 'Dr. Rachael Eckel' (member_id=8815), Status 'Full Registration', registered 14-10-2009. The register discloses no specialty for this entry; the clinic publishes her qualifications as a cosmetic doctor and does not claim a Trinidad and Tobago specialist registration. [mbtt] [mbtt-detail] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-19 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The founder and medical director is named with her role and qualifications on the about page, and the practice publishes a single address and phone number. [site-about] [site-contact] |
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). Matched by name in the national medical register; the clinic publishes no registration number. [mbtt] [mbtt-detail] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-19 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-19 |
| 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. The site names the operating company in its page footer; the Companies Registry returns THE SKIN HEALTH INSTITUTE LIMITED, C2014042509667, RecordStatus ACTIVE, registered 25/04/2014, at the same street address. The clinic does not publish the company number itself. [company] [site-home] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-19 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Qualifications, board certifications and the operating company are named, but no registration, licence or company number is published anywhere on the pages loaded. [site-about] [site-home] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-19 | |
| 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. Superlative marketing language recurs on the about page and across the four service pages; the quoted sentence is one instance. No outcome guarantee and no absolute safety or success statement found. [site-about] [site-laser] [site-medical-aesthetics] The Skin Health Institute is the exclusive provider in Trinidad and Tobago of this innovative and highly sought after technology. |
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. None of the five classes (informed consent, risks or contraindications, aftercare, revision policy, complaint route) was found on the pages loaded: home, about, services index, aesthetic medicine, laser clinic, medical aesthetics and contact. [site-home] [site-about] [site-services] [site-aesthetic-medicine] [site-laser] [site-medical-aesthetics] [site-contact] |
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-home] [site-contact] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site-services] [site-aesthetic-medicine] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-about] [site-aesthetic-medicine] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-about] |
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. Rachael Eckel [site-about] [mbtt] [mbtt-detail] | Founder and Medical Director; cosmetic doctor | not published |
Legal entity: The Skin Health Institute Limited · C2014042509667 [company] [site-home]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site-services]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
What we could not verify
- 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://www.theskinhealthinstitute.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1-868-622-7546 |
| Address | 8 Anderson Terrace, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |
| City | Port of Spain |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site-home | https://www.theskinhealthinstitute.com/ | clinic's own site | practice name, address, operating company named in the footer | 19 September 2026 |
| site-about | https://www.theskinhealthinstitute.com/about/ | clinic's own site | physician name, role, qualifications, clinic description | 19 September 2026 |
| site-services | https://www.theskinhealthinstitute.com/services/ | clinic's own site | service lines (segments) | 19 September 2026 |
| site-aesthetic-medicine | https://www.theskinhealthinstitute.com/services/cosmetic-dermatolog… | clinic's own site | botulinum toxin, dermal fillers, chemical peels, physician-led consultation | 19 September 2026 |
| site-laser | https://www.theskinhealthinstitute.com/services/laser-clinic-2/ | clinic's own site | laser services, marketing text | 19 September 2026 |
| site-medical-aesthetics | https://www.theskinhealthinstitute.com/services/medical-aesthetics/ | clinic's own site | facial and peel menu, marketing text | 19 September 2026 |
| site-contact | https://www.theskinhealthinstitute.com/contact/ | clinic's own site | address, phone, e-mail | 19 September 2026 |
| mbtt | https://mbtt.org/national-listing/?search=true®istration_number&… | official register | GET plain unauthenticated surname search Eckel — two rows, of which Rachael Eckel (member_id=8815) | 19 September 2026 |
| mbtt-detail | https://mbtt.org/member-detail/?member_id=8815 | official register | Full Name 'Dr. Rachael Eckel', Status 'Full Registration', Registration Date 14-10-2009 | 19 September 2026 |
| company | https://rgd.legalaffairs.gov.tt/namesearch-server/webapi/en/search | official register | Two-step anonymous JSON search: (1) GET https://rgd.legalaffairs.gov.tt/namesearch-server/webapi/en/session/new/ttNameSearch for the jwt cookie; (2) POST {"rvr-input-lang":"en","CompanyName":"SKIN HEALTH INSTITUTE","searchName":"ns-public-search"} — returns THE SKIN HEALTH INSTITUTE LIMITED, C2014042509667, PROFIT COMPANY, RecordStatus ACTIVE, RegistrationDate 25/04/2014, 8 ANDERSON TERRACE, MARAVAL | 19 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | sources.company.kind: "official" → "secondary" (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — rule 7 — society route "society" is secondary provenance) |
| 19 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.2 loop pass 2, Google Maps candidate queue). |
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.