Newk's in Rogers 2nd for franchisees
Newk's Eatery opened May 30 at 5100 W. Pauline Whitaker Parkway in Rogers. The Rogers location has 70 jobs and is the second of four planned for Northwest Arkansas by franchise owners Jim Lynch and Jim White.
The restaurant serves handcrafted salads, artisan pizzas, hot-toasted sandwiches, kettle batch soups and scratch-made desserts seven days a week. Jackson, Miss.-based Newk's Eatery has 101 locations in 13 states and plans to expand to more than 200 by 2019.
Hospital awarded on stroke achievement
Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With the Guidelines -- Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite.
Hospitals must achieve 85 percent or higher adherence to all stroke guideline achievement indicators for at least 12 consecutive months and during the same period achieve 75 percent or higher compliance with five of eight quality measures to earn the award.
New Sparks clinic open in Fort Smith area
Sparks Clinic Family Medicine opened last week at 6100 Massard Road in Fort Smith's Chaffee Crossing area. The clinic is the health system's 14th family-medicine clinic in the area. The facility has two physicians, Michael Cole and Justin Voris, and seven employees.
The clinic has a waiting area, 12 exam rooms and digital X-ray. A self-contained lab will be added later this year. Walk-ins are welcome and same-day appointments are available. The clinic is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Baldor, others safety-award winners
Several companies recently earned safety awards from the Arkansas Department of Labor, the Arkansas Insurance Department and the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission.
Baldor Electric Co. in Fort Smith received the 15 Million Man Hour award. The company's 1,250 employees accumulated 15 million work hours without a day lost because of a work-related injury or illness between Aug. 31, 2010, and May 13.
Cherokee Farm, a division of Cobb-Vantress in Gentry, received an Eight Year Accumulative Award. Eleven employees accumulated eight years without a day lost from a work-related injury or illness between April 27, 2008, and April 27.
Trane Residential, a division of Ingersoll Rand in Fort Smith, received a One Million Man Hour award. The company's 250 employees accumulated 1 million work hours without a day lost from a work-related injury of illness between April 29, 2014, and May 13.
Briefs are for businesses in Northwest Arkansas that are new, have moved or closed, opened a new branch, changed owners or have been honored by an independent organization. Email items to cswanson@nwadg.com. Information will be published as space allows.
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