Royale Hayat Hospital
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 60.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #5 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Private hospital in Jabriya with a Plastic Surgery & Cosmetology department and a separate Dermatology clinic. Four plastic surgeons and the head of dermatology are named with their roles on both language fronts, and the operating company is matched in the chamber register with its commercial-register number.
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 | 3.8 out of 5 · reviews: 539 |
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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 Not applicable: this country has no Specialist board register. Kuwait publishes no specialty-board roster; axis not applicable. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Department page and doctor directory name the plastic surgeons with roles at the single hospital address. [site-doctors] [site-dept] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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: asps_international, 18 September 2026 — Run for the hospital’s named plastic-surgery physicians: the ISAPS Kuwait member list returns Dr. Sarah Al Youha (listed at Kuwait University) and the ASPS Kuwait international-member list returns "Sarah Al-Youha, MD, MB, ChB" at Royale Hayat Hospital, Jabriya, badged U.S. and Canada board certified; Dr. Gie Vandehult and Dr. Husain Alqattan appear in neither list. Neither listing publishes a Kuwaiti licence number or licence status, so no licence datum is available; the membership finding is carried in facts[]. Neither route publishes a Kuwaiti licence number, a licence status or an expiry date, so the licence datum cannot be obtained from any reachable source. The Ministry of Health Health Licensing Department search is not reachable by any scripted request from outside Kuwait: DNS resolves but no TCP session is established, re-proved on 2026-09-18 from two independent egresses (see registry-map closedAttempt). No claim either way. |
? | ? | 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: none_found, 18 September 2026 — No secondary route to a Kuwaiti facility register exists: the search of 2026-09-18 recorded in registry-map facility_registry.secondarySearchLog returned nothing of this class. The clinic publishes no facility licence number of its own on the pages re-read on 2026-09-18, so the clinic-published anchor does not apply. The Ministry of Health facility search runs on the same host as the licence search and is not reachable by any scripted request from outside Kuwait (re-proved 2026-09-18). No claim either way. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-18 |
| 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. Chamber register entry retrieved by the hospital's own web domain; commercial-register number 72862, registered activities include hospitals and their management, membership recorded as valid. [kcci] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. International accreditation and internationally certified physicians are asserted; no certificate or licence numbers are published. [site] [site-dept] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. Unattributed superlatives recur across the hospital’s own English copy — the home-page description, the departments text served by the hospital’s own endpoint and its English copy bundle repeat the same register; no outcome or safety guarantee found. Pages loaded 2026-09-18: https://royalehayat.com/, https://royalehayat.com/ar, https://www.royalehayat.com/api/v1/departments and the site’s English copy bundle https://royalehayat.com/assets/i18n-en-B-p5tc60.js. [site] [site-dept] Providing world-class healthcare services with trust and care. |
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 One. A complaint and inquiry route is published; no consent, risk, aftercare or revision document found. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
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] [heliumdoc] |
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| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site-dept] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-dept] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-doctors] |
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. Gie Vandehult [site-doctors] | Consultant plastic surgeon | not published |
| Dr. Sarah Al Youha [site-doctors] | Senior specialist, plastic surgery | not published |
| Dr. Husain Alqattan [site-doctors] | Specialist plastic surgeon | not published |
| Dr. Suraj V. Davis [site-doctors] | Head of dermatology clinic, consultant dermatologist and venereologist | not published |
Legal entity: شركة سما للخدمات الطبية ذ م م (Sama Medical Services Co. W.L.L.) · 72862 [kcci]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site-dept]
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 SECDr. Sarah Al Youha, whom the hospital names as senior specialist in plastic surgery, is listed in the ISAPS find-a-surgeon Kuwait member list and, in the American Society of Plastic Surgeons international-member listing for Kuwait, at Royale Hayat Hospital, Jabriya, badged U.S. and Canada board certified. ASPS states on the same page that it does not independently verify its members’ certification or licensure status. Kuwait publishes no specialty-certification register, so these memberships are shown outside the score.[isaps] [asps]
What we could not verify
- 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://royalehayat.com/ |
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| Phone | +965 2536 0000 |
| Address | Block 3A, opposite the 4th Ring Road, Jabriya, Kuwait City |
| City | Kuwait City |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://royalehayat.com/ | clinic's own site | hospital description, phone, advertising wording, patient support route | 30 August 2026 |
| site-dept | https://www.royalehayat.com/api/v1/departments | clinic's own site | Plastic Surgery & Cosmetology and Dermatology department content in English and Arabic, procedure menu | 30 August 2026 |
| site-doctors | https://www.royalehayat.com/api/v1/doctors?limit=200&page=1 | clinic's own site | physicians, roles, departments, Arabic names | 30 August 2026 |
| heliumdoc | https://heliumdoc.com/kw/clinic/royale-hayat-hospital/ | secondary | address in Jabriya, independent listing | 30 August 2026 |
| kcci | https://www.kuwaitchamber.org.kw/echamber/website/ws_searching.jsp?… | secondary | legal entity, commercial-register number 72862, registered activities, membership status | 30 August 2026 |
| isaps | https://www.isaps.org/discover/find-a-surgeon/?locations=4678 | secondary | GET https://www.isaps.org/discover/find-a-surgeon/?locations=4678&page=1 — ISAPS find-a-surgeon Kuwait member list; returns Dr. Sarah Al Youha, assistant professor of plastic surgery | 18 September 2026 |
| asps | https://find.plasticsurgery.org/?country=Kuwait | secondary | GET https://find.plasticsurgery.org/?country=Kuwait — American Society of Plastic Surgeons international-member listing for Kuwait; returns Sarah Al-Youha, MD, MB, ChB at Royale Hayat Hospital, Jabriya, with the U.S. and Canada board-certified badge | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 3 (Re-run against the clinic’s own live pages (v1.1 pass 1); a verifiable quote was taken from the home page served on 2026-09-18.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-typed after re-probing the Ministry of Health facility search from two egresses (v1.2 pass 1): the class is closed to scripted queries and no secondary route of this class exists.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Re-typed after re-probing the Ministry of Health licence search from two egresses (v1.2 pass 1): the class is closed to scripted queries, and the two secondary routes on the map were run for this record.) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M8: 5 → null (Mechanical check found a single language front (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 30 August 2026 | axes.M7: 3 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://royalehayat.com/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial publication; every citation and the clinic site re-checked on this date. |
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.