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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
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    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's Commitment to Innovative Programs and Advancing its Sustainability Priorities Featured in Sixteenth Report

Press Release

Deerfield, Ill -

Company Strengthens Access to Healthcare, Progresses on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) today issued its 16th annual Sustainability Report detailing the company's progress creating social, environmental and economic value by addressing the needs of stakeholders worldwide.

Baxter's 2014 Sustainability Report, available at baxter.com/sustainability-report, highlights recent actions taken by the company that align with its nine sustainability priorities, which include strengthening access to healthcare, creating an inclusive workplace and enhancing math and science education. Priorities also include a range of environmental initiatives such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste generation, and water use. Baxter's Sustainability Report is aligned with the Global Reporting Initiative G3 Guidelines, which provide a uniform and transparent set of metrics to systematically report on sustainability initiatives and results.

"Baxter's accomplishments and aspirations as a corporate citizen depend on our sustainability as a business," said Robert L. Parkinson, Jr., Baxter's chairman and chief executive officer. "As a healthcare industry leader, we must constantly advance and innovate to create lasting social, environmental and economic value for the communities we serve worldwide."

The company's wide-ranging 2014 highlights include its proactive, strategic approach to product donations. This approach ensured that Baxter products were among the first shipments to arrive in Sierra Leone and Liberia to assist with medical needs surrounding the Ebola outbreak in 2014, and more recently in Nepal to assist medical professionals in response to the earthquake that struck in April 2015. Baxter works primarily with its humanitarian aid partners, AmeriCares and Direct Relief, to pre-position products for emergencies as well as ongoing needs in underserved communities. This approach to product donations improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the process and facilitates timely, targeted support to communities in need as well as enhances the ability of our partner organizations to plan and respond to emergencies.

Additionally, Baxter has reduced its net greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from operations by 8 percent on an absolute basis since 2005, a 41 percent reduction when indexed to revenue during that time period. The company's approach to managing and reducing GHG emissions from operations includes a matrix of 18 strategies including a robust energy management program, switching to lower-carbon fuels, cogeneration of electricity and heat, installation of onsite renewable energy systems, procurement of electricity generated from 100 percent renewable power and building high-performance green buildings. For example, Baxter's Grosotto, Italy, facility switched from using fuel oil to renewable biomass from local wood sawdust and scrap wood chips to generate steam for the manufacturing process; and its Cuernavaca, Mexico, facility is now using lower carbon natural gas rather than fuel oil in its boilers.

Currently anticipated for July 1, 2015, Baxter intends to separate into two independent global healthcare companies – one focused on lifesaving medical products that will retain the Baxter name, and the second, the newly created Baxalta Inc. ("Baxalta"), focused on developing and marketing innovative biopharmaceuticals. Each company will have a sustainability strategy reflecting its unique goals and priorities while carrying forward Baxter's legacy of commitment to sustainability.

Baxter Recognized as a Leading Employer and for Social Responsibility Initiatives

For the 14th year in a row, Baxter was included in Corporate Responsibility magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens list for its corporate social responsibility performance. The annual survey draws from U.S. firms in the Russell 1000 Index and is based on more than 300 data points of publicly available information in seven categories: environment, climate change, employee relations, human rights, governance, finance and philanthropy. Baxter also received recognition from several organizations for its commitment to providing a great place for its employees to work and develop. Baxter was recently named:

About Baxter

Baxter's commitment to sustainability spans more than three decades. The company is included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, and has been recognized by Corporate Responsibility magazine as one of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens and by Points of Light and Bloomberg for community engagement in the Civic 50. The company endorses the Ceres principles and is an Organizational Stakeholder of the Global Reporting Initiative. Further information about Baxter's sustainability programs and performance can be found at baxter.com/sustainability-report.

Baxter International Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures and markets products that save and sustain the lives of people with hemophilia, immune disorders, infectious diseases, cancer, kidney disease, trauma, and other chronic and acute medical conditions. As a global, diversified healthcare company, Baxter applies a unique combination of expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to create products that advance patient care worldwide.

This release includes forward-looking statements concerning the planned spin-off of Baxalta. 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: the ability to successfully separate the businesses on the terms or timeline currently contemplated, if at all, and achieve the intended results; a material adverse change in either the biopharmaceutical or the medical products businesses; satisfaction of regulatory and other requirements; actions of regulatory bodies and other governmental authorities; clinical trial results; changes in laws and regulations; product quality, manufacturing or supply issues; patient safety issues; and other risks identified in Baxalta's Form 10 and Baxter's most recent filing on Form 10-K and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings, all of which are available on Baxter's website. Baxter does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.