Hospice Missing Patient Report Form

When a hospice patient goes missing, every moment counts—but so does compassion, dignity and medical safety. This Hospice Missing Patient Report Form is designed specifically for hospice care facilities, palliative care teams and home health agencies to quickly document critical medical information, communicate with search teams and coordinate with family members during a sensitive, time-critical situation.

Unlike generic missing person reports, this template recognizes the unique needs of hospice patients: advanced directives like DNR status, comfort care protocols, medication dependencies, mobility limitations and the emotional complexity of involving loved ones. By capturing this information in a structured, compassionate way, your team can ensure search efforts are informed, appropriate and centered on the patient's dignity and wellbeing.

Paperform makes it easy to customize this form to match your facility's protocols, integrate with your incident reporting systems and trigger the right workflows at the right time. With conditional logic, you can tailor questions based on the patient's condition, route urgent reports to administrators and family liaisons, and maintain a clear audit trail for compliance and quality assurance.

Need to notify multiple family members or escalate to local authorities? Use Stepper (stepper.io) to automate those workflows—send notifications via SMS or email, update your patient management system and coordinate follow-up tasks across care teams, all triggered from a single form submission.

This template is ideal for hospice agencies, palliative care programs, senior care facilities and healthcare providers who need a compassionate, compliant way to respond to missing patient incidents while honoring advance care directives and maintaining family communication.