Clínica San Fernando Coronado
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 33.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #5 of 16 ranked clinics · Last checked: 18 August 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#533.9/100
- Best for Expats#336.8/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#333.9/100
- Best Price Transparency#134.7/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#439.3/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
Summary
Clínica San Fernando Coronado is a branch of Hospital San Fernando, a private hospital group based in Panama City. It operates as a full outpatient clinic on the main road leading into the Coronado beach community and offers general medicine, dentistry (by appointment), emergency room, radiology, laboratory, and multiple specialist consultations. Bilingual (English and Spanish) staff are documented. The clinic maintains a discount-card membership scheme ($50/year) that includes one free annual cleaning and free doctor visit. Dr. Aldring Atencio (now at VIAL Dental) was formerly the lead dentist at this clinic.
Two phone numbers appear across sources: 240-1646 and 240-1167 (both from the same playacommunity.com article); 501-0510 appears in a 2014 IOM migrant-info page and may reflect a separate or outdated number. Hours are inconsistently reported: the playacommunity.com directory listing states 'daily 6:00–21:00'; a search snippet specifies dentist hours as 'Mon–Sat 8:00–16:00'; a separate source reports ER coverage Fri–Sat as 24 hours. The Facebook page (facebook.com/ClinicaHospitalSanFernando) belongs to the hospital group and covers all branches. No dedicated email for the Coronado branch was found. No specific dentist names at the Coronado location were found in accessible sources after Dr. Atencio's departure.
Strengths
No categories reached the strength threshold (80%).
Weaknesses
No category fell below the weakness threshold (50% of verifiable points).
Score Breakdown
Every criterion below is scored from public sources. ✓ verified yes · ✗ verified no / not found · ◐ partial · ? unverified (scores 0, not a negative finding).
Information Transparency
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website The clinic has a page on the Hospital San Fernando group website (hospitalsanfernando.com), though direct access returned errors; the page is indexed and referenced. [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✗ | Dentist names listed No dentist names at the Coronado location are published in accessible current sources. Dr. Aldring Atencio was formerly the lead dentist but left to open VIAL Dental. [s1] [s2] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Dentistry, emergency room, radiology/imaging, laboratory, outpatient consultation listed on playacommunity.com directory. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone +507 240-1646, WhatsApp +507 6379-2321 confirmed in search sources. [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version Hospital San Fernando group website has an English version; Coronado branch page is included. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Location on main road into Coronado (Chame, Panamá Oeste) confirmed in multiple expat community sources. [s2] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published Annual membership card $50/year (includes free annual cleaning and free doctor visit, plus lab/X-ray discounts) published in community article. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed One free cleaning per year included with the $50 annual discount card; standalone cleaning price not published. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed One free doctor visit per year with annual $50 card; standard consultation price not published. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed Lab and X-ray discounts mentioned as part of membership card but specific prices not published. | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
Public review signals. The Google rating is adjusted with a Bayesian prior (rating 4.0, weight 25) so a 5.0 from a handful of reviews does not outrank a 4.8 from hundreds.
| ? | Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted) Google Maps rating for the Coronado branch not verifiable through accessible sources. | 0/6 |
| ? | Google review volume | 0/3 |
| ? | Review recency | 0/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ? | No suspicious review patterns | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence facebook.com/ClinicaHospitalSanFernando is the group hospital Facebook page; covers the Coronado clinic as a branch. [s3] | 1/1 |
| ? | TripAdvisor presence | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Listed on playacommunity.com, coronadoconciergepanama.com (not accessible), coronado-golf.com POI, IOM migrant-info portal. [s2] [s3] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray Radiology and imaging (including X-rays) listed among services. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ? | Implantology Implants not listed in dental service descriptions for this branch. | 0/2 |
| ? | Orthodontics | 0/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care Emergency room documented; Fri–Sat 24-hour coverage documented in playacommunity.com article. [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients Multiple expat guides describe the clinic as bilingual and as serving the international expat community in the Coronado area; accepts international medical plans. [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✓ | WhatsApp / LINE available WhatsApp +507 6379-2321 confirmed in search-result snippet. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken Described as 'bilingual staff (Spanish and English)' in playacommunity.com article; expat guides consistently describe English-speaking capacity. [s2] [s3] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Service categories and membership card terms described clearly in community article. [s2] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Daily emergency coverage (Fri–Sat 24h); dental by appointment Mon–Sat per search snippet. [s2] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Panama", "English speaking dentist Panama", "dental implants Panama", "emergency dentist Panama", "Panama dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Panama Clinic appears in expat-community sources but not in top search results for city dental queries. [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Panama San Fernando Coronado is mentioned as English-speaking in sources that appear in results for the five canonical city queries. [s4] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Panama Implant services not documented for this branch; not present in implants query results. [s4] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Panama Documented emergency room; clinic referenced in Coronado healthcare guides that appear in emergency-query results. [s4] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: Panama dental clinic for expats Clinic appears in expat-focused healthcare guides that surface for the five canonical city queries. [s4] | 1/1 |
| ? | Structured data on website Hospital San Fernando group website page; structured data not verified. | 0/1.5 |
| ◐ | Google indexing quality Group website pages and expat directory entries surface for clinic-name searches; Coronado branch-specific pages have limited independent ranking. [s4] | 1/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Dedicated Coronado clinic page exists on the Hospital San Fernando group website. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. Missing items are penalised.
Clinic operating licence: not published on the clinic’s website — penalty applied
Dentists & professional licences
The clinic does not publish the dentists working there or their professional licence numbers — penalty applied.
Red Flags
- medium Clinic operating licence not published (-4 pts) — The clinic does not publish its operating licence or registration number (derived from data).
- medium Dentists / their licences not listed (-4 pts) — The clinic does not publish its dentists with their professional licence numbers (derived from data).
- low No dentists identified anywhere (-2 pts) — No dentist names published (derived from data).
Red-flag penalty applied: -10 points (capped at -20).
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Price Transparency: Filling price listed
- Price Transparency: Crown price listed
- Price Transparency: Implant price listed
- Price Transparency: X-ray / imaging price listed
- Reputation & Reviews: Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted)
- Reputation & Reviews: Google review volume
- Reputation & Reviews: Review recency
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Reputation & Reviews: No suspicious review patterns
- Reputation & Reviews: TripAdvisor presence
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Implantology
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- AI & Search Visibility: Structured data on website
Unverified items score 0 points but are not treated as negative findings. If you can document any of them, please send a correction.
Contact Information
| Website | https://www.hospitalsanfernando.com/en/san-fernando-coronado-clinic/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +507 240-1646 |
| +507 6379-2321 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/ClinicaHospitalSanFernando | |
| Address | Main road into Coronado (Carretera Interamericana approach), Coronado, Chame, Panamá Oeste, Panama |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://www.hospitalsanfernando.com/en/san-fernando-coronado-clinic/ | Dedicated Coronado branch page on Hospital San Fernando group website; English version confirmed; page did not fully load during access attempt | 2026-08-18 |
| s2 | https://playacommunity.com/business-directory/health-personal-care/… | Address (main road into Coronado, Chame, Panamá Oeste), phone 507 240-1646, hours (daily 06:00–21:00), service list (dentistry, ER, radiology, lab, pharmacy, outpatient), bilingual staff, accepts international plans, $50/year discount card (free cleaning + doctor visit + discounts), dentist appointment Mon–Fri | 2026-08-18 |
| s3 | search:San Fernando Coronado Panama dental phone WhatsApp hours English | Second phone 507 240-1167; WhatsApp +507 6379-2321; dentist hours Mon–Sat 8:00–16:00 per search snippet; Facebook page facebook.com/ClinicaHospitalSanFernando; expat guides describe bilingual English capacity and international patient service | 2026-08-18 |
| s4 | search:the five canonical city queries for Coronado Panama dental | AI/search visibility checks 2026-08-18: San Fernando Coronado does not appear for the five canonical city queries; appears in English-speaking dentist and expats queries via expat guides; referenced in emergency-dental context via ER documentation | 2026-08-18 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 |
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