Northwest Arkansas Business Briefs | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Arvest Bank was named to Forbes’ 2026 America’s Best-in-State Employers list in Arkansas for a seventh consecutive year. The bank ranked first in banking and financial services and 14th overall in the state. Forbes’ list, produced with Statista, is based on an independent employee survey of more than 245,000 workers at companies with at least 500 employees in the U.S., considering about 2 million evaluations over three years. In other business news, Mercy Fort Smith opened two specialty clinics at Mercy Tower West: Mercy Clinic Cardiology and Mercy Oncology & Hematology. The article also reports that hospitals in Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain-MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2026.