26. A person shall be admitted to a short-term care hospital centre on written application for admission, accompanied by a provisional diagnosis, made by a physician or dentist who is a member of the council of physicians, dentists and pharmacists of the institution, acting within the terms of his privileges. The physician or dentist in whose name the beneficiary is admitted becomes the attending physician or dentist.
O.C. 1320-84, s. 26; O.C. 375-88, ss. 1 and 2.