About

Family Owned and Operated

Since 1975, Concerned Care Home Health and Hospice has been committed to excellence in-home care. Our dedication is as strong today as it was over 35 years ago—providing quality care through a full continuum of home care services. With the addition of Hospice Care in 2004, we offer four main home care disciplines plus essential support and social services. These include:

Home Health Care, Advanced Illness Management (AIM), Hospice and Mental Health

The mission of Concerned Care is to provide personalized cost-effective, quality care and services to our clients at home and to all consumers of our services, in an effort to encourage the maximum potential in independence.

Our Home Health and Hospice Medical Directors

Dr. Laurence Durante

Dr. Laurence Durante

Dr. Laurence Durante graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1983 having attended on a US Navy Scholarship. Following a rotating internship at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Dr. Durante served 4 years on active duty as a Navy General Medical Officer.

Dr. Durante then took a Masters in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland and completed a residency in General Preventive Medicine/Public Health in the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

After serving as the Health Officer for Queen Anne's County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Dr. Durante returned to New Orleans where he provided Occupational and Employee Health services at Touro Infirmary. Since 1992, Dr. Durante has served on the faculty of the Tulane School of Medicine in the Department of Community and Family Medicine.

Since 1995, Dr. Durante has served as a full-time hospice medical director. He is board certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine in General Preventive Medicine as well as Occupational Medicine and by the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Preventive Medicine as well as the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Dr. James (Jimmy) Ellis is a Medical Oncologist, Hematologist and Palliative Care physician practicing in the Greater New Orleans area. He is a 1982 graduate of LSU Baton Rouge with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering. After working for Exxon for four years he entered LSU Medical School in New Orleans. Graduating with Honors in 1991,

Dr. Ellis did a Surgery internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Internal Medicine residency at Earl K. Long in Baton Rouge and a Hematology-Medical Oncology fellowship with LSU in New Orleans. He has been in practice since 1998 adding Hospice and Palliative Care services in 2000. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Ellis is an advocate for cancer patients and their families through both philanthropy and health care policy.

Dr. Ellis is a native New Orleanian growing up in Old Jefferson and attending St. Agnes Parochial and Archbishop Rummel High Schools. He is the father of four wonderful daughters. He is active in fitness activities including yoga and Shotokan Karate. Dr. Elis also loves boating and fishing owning a camp in Grand Isle where he spends much of his leisure time.

James K. Ellis

James K. Ellis, MD

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Home Health Quality Improvement (HHQI) National Campaign Participant

Since 2007, the Home Health Quality Improvement (HHQI) National Campaign has been dedicated to improving the quality of care provided to America’s home health patients.

The campaign consistently offers a wide variety of evidence-based educational tools and resources to help us improve the quality of the care we provide.
This useful information for home health nurses, medical social workers, therapists and aides is focused on reducing avoidable hospitalizations, improving medication management, coordinating transitional care, improving immunization rates, and much more.