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the company's ability to successfully integrate acquisitions, including the acquisition of Hillrom, and the related impact on the company’s organization structure, senior leadership, culture, functional alignment, outsourcing and other areas, the company’s management of resulting related personnel capacity constraints and potential institutional knowledge loss, and the company’s ability to achieve anticipated performance or financial targets and maintain its reputation following integration; the company’s ability to execute on its capital allocation plans, including the company's debt repayment plans, the timing and amount of any dividends, share repurchases and divestiture proceeds (including those resulting from the pending Kidney Care sale); the impact of global economic conditions including, among other things, inflation levels, interest rates, financial market volatility, banking crises, the potential for a recession, the war in Ukraine, the conflict in the Middle East (including recent attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea), tensions amongst China, Taiwan and the U.S., and the potential for escalation of these conflicts, the related economic sanctions being imposed globally in response to the conflicts and potential trade wars and global public health crises, pandemics and epidemics or the anticipation of any of the foregoing, on the company's operations and on the company's employees, customers, suppliers, and foreign governments in countries in which the company operates; the impact of physical effects of climate change, severe storms (including Hurricane Helene) and storm-related events, including the company’s ability to import and distribute product from other facilities in connection with temporary importation authorizations, the reallocation of manufacturing capacity, the ability to receive necessary regulatory or other approvals required to reopen all or a portion of impacted facilities, the ability to resume production at the company’s North Cove facility on the expected time frame or at all and physical, environmental or other obstacles identified during the course of remediation, including with respect to the availability of third party contractors and any equipment, transportation or other supplies needed to support the remediation efforts; inability to create additional production capacity in a timely manner or the occurrence of other manufacturing, sterilization, or supply difficulties, including as a result of natural disaster, war, terrorism, global public health crises and epidemics/pandemics, regulatory actions, or otherwise; 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