Dr. Earl Rodney Hornbake MD
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
10 Wildwood Medical Ctr Essex CT, 06426Rating
3/5
About
Dr. Earl Hornbake practices Geriatric Medicine in Essex, CT. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Hornbake works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- It's time for nursing home reform.
- Cooperation is the antidote to managed competition.
- CLIA's effect on physician labs. A round table discussion.
- Where are we and how did we get here? Federal regulation of the office laboratory.
- Defensive medicine: a form of "varmint" control?
- Leveraging improvement in quality and value in health care through a clinical performance measure framework: a recommendation of the American College of Physicians.
- How to cope with the peer review organization.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- High Cholesterol
- Heart Disease
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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Practice At 10 Wildwood Medical Ctr
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