SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State Hospital plans to buy 100 portable radios for patients in a section of a new hospital building called Harbors.
The Statesman Journal reports the steel-reinforced construction interferes with AM-FM reception.
Inmates have been complaining since they moved in Jan. 10. Clinical director Arthur Tolan says patient radios are therapeutic because they muffle noise and the internal voices that some patients hear.
The new radios ordered Friday should get better reception.
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Information from: Statesman Journal, http://www.statesmanjournal.com
