Household awareness for safer home visits
FOREWARN is a proactive safety and situational awareness solution that helps home healthcare organizations gain greater visibility into the households their staff enter every day.
From reactive to proactive – know before you go
Home healthcare professionals often enter private residences alone, with little visibility into who else may be present. These environments can be unpredictable, yet few home healthcare organizations have tools that help staff understand potential risks before arriving.
FOREWARN helps close that gap by providing visibility into potential household occupants and available criminal history information. Used by field staff or integrated into intake and scheduling workflows, FOREWARN helps organizations better prepare teams, support safer visits, and reinforce a safety commitment that can aid recruitment and retention.
Additionally, many incidents go unreported as workers encounter violence but don’t file official reports.
How FOREWARN helps
Enter the patient address to search by Household Risk
View potential household occupants and available risk indicators, including criminal history and sex offender status
Select any household member to review available criminal record details.
Assess potential safety concerns to inform staffing strategies
Delivery methods
API
Integrate into your existing workflow at intake or request your software provider to include it in optional integrations
App
Equip staff with access to utilize the app individually to check household risk prior to every home visit
Online Browser
Similar to the app, but accessed via browser—empower scheduling staff to search every home visit address and flag potential risks before assignments are made
CHALLENGE
Home visits put home healthcare staff into the unknown
Home healthcare professionals—including clinicians, nurses, therapists, aides, and caregivers—routinely enter unfamiliar homes without knowing who else may be present. That uncertainty breeds anxiety, erodes confidence, and makes it harder for agencies to retain the staff they depend on.
SOLUTION
FOREWARN supports home healthcare staff confidence
When home healthcare staff know their organization is proactively looking out for them and keeping them informed of possible risks, they enter homes with greater confidence and less anxiety. That translates into stronger retention, better morale, and a culture that puts safety first. Empowered staff deliver better patient care.
CHALLENGE
Agencies need to show they take reasonable steps to keep staff safe
Protecting home healthcare staff extends beyond providing training and policies. Agencies are expected to take reasonable steps to identify and mitigate foreseeable risks before staff enter a home. When an incident occurs, home healthcare agencies face real liability exposure and need to be able to demonstrate that those steps were taken.
SOLUTION
FOREWARN strengthens organizational protection
FOREWARN supports responsible risk management by equipping agencies with proactive safety measures to allow them to show reasonable pre-visit awareness efforts. It enhances workplace violence prevention programs, reduces liability exposure from foreseeable risks, and improves insurance and compliance positioning. In the event of an incident, being able to show that your organization took reasonable steps to assess risk matters.
The Instant Proactive Safety Solution for:
Technology
Partners (e.g. EMRs)
Home Healthcare
Agencies
Home
Healthcare Staff
Care Coordinators
and Schedulers
Hospice and Palliative
Care Providers
- 1. Home Healthcare Now – May/June 2025
- 2. NIOSH / CDC Science Blog – A Growing Workforce at High Risk for Workplace Violence
- 3. WTW Article – Home health employer responsibilities and safety priorities