1204                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                                  Ch. 460

546.

Any investigation, inquiry hearing or examination
which the Board is empowered by law to hold or undertake
may be held or undertaken by or before the majority of
the members of the Board or its secretary, and the
finding or order of members of the Board or the
representative, when concurred in by[,] the majority of
the members of the [Board shall] BOARD, SHALL have the
same force and effect as the finding or order of the
whole Board.

565C.

(a) It is the intent of the General Assembly and
the purpose of this section to promote the interests and
well—being of the patients and residents of skilled
nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities. It
is declared to be the public policy of this State that
the interests of the patient be protected by a
declaration of a patient's bill of rights and by
requiring that the facilities treat their patients in
accordance with the provisions of this bill of rights,
which shall include, but not be limited to, the
following:

(9) Every patient and resident shall be
provided with information as to any relationship of the
facility to other health care and related institutions
insofar[,] as the patient's care is concerned;

606.

The State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners as it
existed prior to June 1, 1968 is hereby continued, except
that on and after this date, the Board shall consist of
five members. The Board shall be part of the Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene. Three members of the Board
shall be physical therapists who are licensed to practice
physical therapy under this subtitle and who are actively
engaged in physical therapy in the State. Two members of
the Board shall be licensed to practice medicine under
the provisions of this article until the termination of
their respective terms on or before June 1, 1977 and July
1, 1978; upon the termination, a physical therapist who
is licensed to practice physical therapy under this
subtitle and who is actively engaged in physical therapy
in the State shall be appointed. Members of the Board
shall be appointed by the Governor, upon the
recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene, for terms of five years each and until their
successors are appointed. All appointments shall be made
as terms on the Board respectively expire (other than by
abolition of positions) and so as to preserve the
composition of the Board; the appointment shall be made
from lists of qualified persons submitted to the Governor
and the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene by the
American Physical Therapy Association of Maryland and