Peace of mind, engineered for the caregivers who knock on strangers' doors alone.
POM Safe - the Newark-built safety platform pairing a wearable panic device with 24/7 dispatch and a compliance dashboard for home health and hospice teams.
POM Safe is a safety-technology company in Newark, New Jersey, that builds a unified platform for the people who deliver care outside a hospital's walls. Its product is deceptively small: a two-way communication fob that clips to a keychain or an ID badge, paired with a mobile app and a live, around-the-clock dispatch team.
Tap the device and it does what a 911 call often cannot - it immediately shares the user's identity and exact GPS location with a dispatcher, and opens a two-way audio channel. Even if the caregiver can't speak, the dispatcher can hear the room and send the right help.
That gap is the company's founding wound. POM Safe grew out of a campus-violence tragedy, when first responders could not locate a friend of founder AJ Leahy in time. The company cites a hard number behind the problem: a large share of emergency calls fail to capture a caller's precise location.
Over time, POM narrowed its aim. What began as a broad personal-safety product became a purpose-built system for home health, hospice, and community-based care - a corner of the workforce that is growing fast and, too often, working without backup.
Home health and hospice clinicians work alone, in unpredictable environments, without on-site support. Verbal abuse, threats, and physical violence are a routine hazard - and the tools most people carry weren't designed for the moment things go wrong.
Figures cited by POM Safe from industry and emergency-response data. Approximate.
"We can protect the people that we love through technology, awareness, and community."
A discreet series of taps on the fob triggers an SOS - silently, without opening a phone.
The user's profile and real-time GPS location appear on the dispatcher's screen.
Two-way audio opens. The dispatcher can hear the situation even if the caregiver can't speak.
The 24/7 team deploys the appropriate help and keeps the record for reporting.
A compact two-way fob for keychain or badge. The POM 3 pairs to a phone with up to 10-day battery; POM Mobile carries its own SIM and works phone-free.
A live VIP team that sees your profile and location on activation and can hear and act on the situation instantly.
SOS and silent alerts, fake phone calls for safe exits, one-tap texting, and appointment check-ins and check-outs.
Automated timers monitor a worker through a visit and escalate if they don't check out on schedule.
Generates risk scores from name, address, crime data, and offender-registry information before a visit ever happens.
Live location tracking, geofenced check-ins, mass alerts, incident reporting, trend analytics, and OSHA compliance audits.
POM Safe sells to home health, hospice, and community-care agencies, which equip their field clinicians with devices and app licenses. The model is B2B SaaS plus hardware: recurring subscriptions for the platform and dispatch service, bundled with wearable devices provisioned per worker.
The company reports partnering with more than 50 client organizations, including major universities and large healthcare providers. Named customers include Penn Medicine at Home, Healthfirst, Innovive Health, and VNS Westchester.
For an agency, the pitch runs on more than fear. Safety tools that fold into the workday can improve staff retention and morale, ease the compliance burden of OSHA and accreditation, and give operations real-time visibility across a distributed workforce.
In September 2024, POM Safe announced a partnership with Innovive Health to equip its home healthcare clinicians - a signal of the company's steady move deeper into post-acute care.
AJ Leahy and Lukas Lampe launch the company after a campus-violence tragedy exposed gaps in emergency response.
POM ships its two-way communication safety fob backed by a 24/7 dispatch team.
POM grows to serve universities, enterprises, and healthcare organizations across 50+ clients.
Cayuga Venture Fund leads a $3M round, with Newark Venture Partners and angel investors, to build the B2B partner program.
POM Safe adds intake risk scoring, Check On Me timers, and a compliance dashboard purpose-built for home health and hospice.
POM Safe partners with Innovive Health to protect home healthcare clinicians in the field.
"Give people innovative technology that keeps them safe - no matter who they are, where they are, or what they're doing."
It provides a personal-safety platform for home health and hospice - a wearable two-way device and app tied to 24/7 dispatch, real-time GPS, risk scoring, check-in timers, and a compliance dashboard - so caregivers who work alone can quickly summon help and agencies can prevent and document workplace violence.
The device works with one discreet tap, immediately sharing the user's profile and exact GPS location with a dispatcher and opening two-way audio even if the user can't speak - addressing the gap that many 911 calls don't reliably capture a caller's location.
Home health, hospice, and community-care agencies and their field clinicians, and historically universities and enterprises. Named users include Penn Medicine at Home, Healthfirst, Innovive Health, and VNS Westchester.
It's headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, and was founded by AJ Leahy (CEO) and Lukas Lampe as POM Partners, Inc. after a campus-violence tragedy.
POM raised a $3M Series A in September 2020, led by Cayuga Venture Fund with participation from Newark Venture Partners and angel investors.