Lone-worker safety for healthcare
Don’t Panic keeps home-health aides, visiting nurses, and social workers safe on solo visits — with check-ins, a silent duress alarm, and escalation that doesn’t stop until someone responds. No dedicated hardware. No dead fobs.
App-only · HIPAA-native · works even when the phone can’t.
Home-health workers face workplace violence at roughly five times the rate of the average worker.
The number of people with them on a typical visit. When something goes wrong, no colleague is watching.
Apps that can dial 911 for you. Real safety needs check-ins and a chain of humans — not a button that hopes.
The safety loop
It runs whether the visit is calm or the worst happens — and the most important step runs on our servers, not the phone.
Set a check-in interval. The countdown — and the server-side timer — begin.
A quick PIN resets the clock. On one bar of signal? Text “OK 1234”.
Hit SOS, or enter your duress PIN to alert silently under coercion.
Push, SMS, then a phone call to each contact — stopping only on acknowledgement.
What’s inside
A panic button that's already in your pocket — no fob to carry, charge, or lose. Fires even from the lock screen.
Coerced into 'cancelling'? A duress PIN looks exactly like a normal check-in on screen while it quietly raises the alarm.
Start a visit and the clock runs. Miss a check-in and our server escalates on its own — even if your phone never sends another byte.
Push → SMS → automated voice call, contact after contact, until a real person acknowledges. No alert dies in a silent inbox.
Location is shared only during an active visit or an alert — never all day. Privacy your team will actually accept.
Built to minimize PHI and sign BAAs from day one. Patient details stay in your EVV/EHR; we carry an opaque visit reference.
Why app-only still works
A button on a phone is only as good as the phone. Dead battery, no signal, dropped in a struggle — that’s exactly when you need it. Three layers close the gap that hardware fobs sell you on.
Miss a check-in and the alert fires from our servers — even if the phone is dead, smashed, or out of range. The safety net doesn’t live on the device.
One bar is enough. Text OK 1234 to check in or SOS for help when there isn’t enough signal for the app.
Location breadcrumbs queue on the device and sync when coverage returns, timestamped to when they actually happened.
Tell us about your agency and we’ll set up a no-pressure pilot — transparent per-seat pricing, no hardware to buy, BAA included.
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We never auto-dial 911 — and we’ll tell you exactly why that matters. Escalation routes to your people (and, soon, a 24/7 monitoring center).