Healthcare Professionals

Committed to helping you meet the evolving challenges and opportunities in patient care.

Healthcare Professionals
  • Critical Care

    Providing innovative therapies and technologies to help you treat patients with life-threatening illnesses in the ICU.

  • Hospital Care

    From the pharmacy to the bedside, we help you maximize safety, streamline processes and build cost efficiency throughout the hospital.

  • Nutritional Care

    Acute and chronic nutritional care for your patients who are unable to get adequate nutrients orally or enterally.

  • Renal Care

    Pioneering innovation in hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis to help you achieve better outcomes for your patients.

  • Surgical Care

    Delivering innovative surgical products that help you operate with confidence, precision and speed.

  • Our Products

    Our portfolio of acute, nutritional, renal, hospital and surgical care products helps advance healthcare around the world.

Perspectives

For more than 85-years, we have worked at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives.

Perspectives

Our Story

Our more than 85-year heritage gives us distinct perspective on the needs of patients and caregivers. We lead today by putting those insights to work to deliver new, better healthcare solutions and access to care in the communities where we live and work.

Our Story
  • Our Governance

    We are proud of our strong commitment to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance.

  • Fueling Collaborative Innovation

    Nurturing a culture of innovation is critical to delivering on our mission to save and sustain lives. We partner with the healthcare community to continually find more efficient, smarter ways to help solve the world's most pressing healthcare challenges.

  • Corporate Responsibility

    We are committed to doing business the right way, ensuring that we champion our employees, our communities, our customers and patients, and our environment in everything we do.

  • Inclusion & Diversity

    We are committed to attracting, motivating and retaining an inclusive and diverse workforce.

  • Our History

    For more than 85 years, we’ve been focused on saving and sustaining lives and elevating patient care.

Patients

Helping you reach a healthy life, full of possibility.

Patients
  • Critical Care

    When every moment counts, our therapies help healthcare specialists provide life-sustaining treatment to you or your loved one.

  • Hospital Care

    From the pharmacy to the bedside, we support you and your healthcare providers with IV medications and infusion technologies designed with safety in mind.

  • Nutritional Care

    When medical conditions prevent you from adequately feeding yourself, we provide life-saving clinical nutrition options to help you regain or maintain your health.

  • Renal Care

    Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an ongoing journey. While every journey is unique, Baxter is with you every step of the way, providing options to meet your lifestyle needs.

  • Surgical Care

    We partner with surgical teams around the world so they can operate with confidence, precision and speed for a successful outcome to your surgery.

Baxter Comments on Schedule 13D Filing by Third Point

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Deerfield, Ill. -

Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) today issued the following statement in response to the Schedule 13D filed by Third Point LLC:

Baxter maintains open communication with its shareholders and values constructive input toward enhancing value. Baxter has engaged in various discussions with representatives of Third Point and expects to continue a constructive dialogue. 

Baxter’s Board and management team are committed to enhancing value for all Baxter shareholders. Baxter has a proven track record of taking action to create significant value and will continue to evaluate shareholder input, assess opportunities and make decisions to further achieve this important objective. 

Baxter provides a broad portfolio of essential renal and hospital products, including home, acute and in-center dialysis; sterile IV solutions; infusion systems and devices; parenteral nutrition; biosurgery products and anesthetics; and pharmacy automation, software and services. The company’s global footprint and the critical nature of its products and services play a key role in expanding access to healthcare in emerging and developed countries. Baxter’s employees worldwide are building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the next generation of healthcare innovations that enable patient care.        

This release includes forward-looking statements concerning Baxter's future actions. The statements are based on assumptions about many important factors, including the following, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements: continued strength in the company’s financial position, including cash flows; future decisions of the board of directors of the company; the ability to achieve the intended results from the recent separation of the biopharmaceutical and medical products businesses on the terms currently contemplated, if at all; and other risks identified in Baxter’s most recent filing on Form 10-K and other SEC filings, all of which are available on Baxter’s website. Baxter does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.