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Women's clinic moves in Fayetteville

Tuesday brought changes to Renaissance Women's Healthcare in Fayetteville. The Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas clinic moved to 3302 North Hills Blvd., its founder retired and a new doctor joined the group.

The clinic operated in a temporary office at FirstCare Family South since a fire in December 2015. The new location is near Fayetteville Diagnostic, MANA laboratory and Imaging Services.

Dr. Kathleen Paulsen retired after more than two decades practicing medicine. She established the practice in 2005.

Dr. Angela Curry joined Dr. Mark Pickhardt and nurse practitioner Cindy Shaw at Renaissance.

Curry has been a gynecologist for 20 years, most recently practicing in Jonesboro. She spent seven years training in U.S. Air Force schools in Texas and Mississippi and served as a staff gynecologist for the Air Force in Lakenheath, England.

Food delivery service Waitr starts to roll

Waitr, an on-demand restaurant business, arrived in Northwest Arkansas last week. The Waitr app is used in cities across the Gulf states, including multiple locations in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. Waitr is hiring drivers in Northwest Arkansas. It also launched in Little Rock.

Chris Meaux, the company's founder, said the delivery charge is a flat fee of $5 and the service includes door-to-door delivery.

Dozens of Northwest Arkansas restaurants are participating, including Wood Stone Craft Pizza + Bar, Foghorn's, Mockingbird Kitchen, Sassy's BBQ & Grill and Newk's Eatery.

Users create an account, choose a restaurant, browse the menu, select items and tap to submit the order. Ordering is also available online at waitrapp.com.

The company began in 2015 in Lake Charles, La. Waitr has more than 2,000 restaurants and hundreds of thousands of users in more than 100 cities.

Pediatric clinic garners design awards

A pediatric clinic designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects received a 2017 Healthcare Design Award from the American Institute of Architects' Academy of Architecture for Health.

The firm's design for the Harvey Pediatric Clinic in Rogers was among seven winning designs chosen from submissions by the best architecture firms across the United States. Awards were handed out recently at the American Institute of Architects/American College of Healthcare Architects Summer Leadership Summit in Chicago.

Blackwell holds the E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture and is a distinguished professor in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. His firm is based in Fayetteville and he is an American Institute of Architects fellow.

The Harvey Pediatric Clinic has a cayenne panel -- a custom color developed specifically for the project -- that wraps the building's south side of the second level; blue glass in the skylight; and a small niche that gives doctors space for research and reflection. A double-height flex space on the west end of the building holds a mezzanine with a wall of glass and is the hub for the administrative staff. A ground-floor break room looks onto a small porch and garden.

Other awards the Harvey Pediatric Clinic received include: a 2017 American Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies; a 2017 Gulf States AIA Merit Award; a 2017 PLAN Award (health care category); was selected for the short list for the 2017 World Architecture Festival; and the design team will present the project in November at the festival in Berlin, Germany.

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