Healthcare Professionals

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

Healthcare Professionals
  • Primary Care

    Supporting every aspect of your clinical practice, including physical exam, diagnostic cardiology, vitals monitoring and vision screening

  • Hospital Care

    Advancing products and technologies designed to speed patient recovery and streamline clinical workflows

  • Surgical Care

    Delivering innovations that enable reduced operating times, faster patient recovery and improved outcomes

  • Kidney Care

    Pioneering care in hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD) and digital health to support better outcomes for your patients

  • Nutritional Care

    Personalizing nutritional care designed to improve patients’ health in the hospital, the ICU and at home

  • Respiratory Care

    Helping your patients with respiratory therapies designed to simplify delivery and improve mobility

  • Our Products & Services

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

Perspectives

For nearly a century, we have worked at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives.

Perspectives

Our Story

Our 90-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 Leadership

    Our forward-looking leadership team is a driving force in ensuring we meet the needs of all our stakeholders – every day and everywhere.

  • 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 strive to create lasting value by empowering our patients, protecting our planet and championing our people and communities.

  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

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

  • Our History

    For nearly a century, we’ve been focused on saving and sustaining lives and elevating patient care.

Patients

Helping you reach a healthy life, full of possibility.

Patients
  • General Healthcare

    Whether you are receiving care in the hospital, at your doctor’s office or at home, we are here to support every step of your journey.

  • Nutritional Care

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

  • Kidney Care

    Kidney disease is an ongoing journey for you and your family. While every journey is unique, Baxter is committed to supporting access to care options to meet your medical and lifestyle needs.

  • Respiratory Care

    We are committed to helping you with innovative products that deliver effective, proven respiratory therapy in the hospital and at home.

​José (Joe) E. Almeida

​Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

​José (Joe) E. Almeida

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José (Joe) E. Almeida is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Baxter International Inc.

Every day, millions of patients and caregivers rely on Baxter's broad portfolio of essential healthcare therapies and technologies, which can be found in patient homes, hospitals, physician offices and other sites of care worldwide. 

Almeida assumed his current responsibilities at Baxter in January 2016. He is now leading the company through a period of dynamic evolution and innovation, powered by Baxter's mission to save and sustain lives and vision to transform healthcare.

Before joining Baxter, Almeida served as chairman, president and CEO of Covidien plc from 2012 to 2015, and as president and CEO from 2011 to 2012. Prior to this, he held a range of senior leadership roles at Covidien and its predecessor organization, Tyco Healthcare, including president, Medical Devices, and president, International. A career healthcare veteran, Almeida also held leadership and management roles at multiple companies across the industry, including Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, American Home Products' Acufex Microsurgical division, and Johnson & Johnson's Professional Products division. He began his career as a management consultant at Andersen Consulting (Accenture).

Almeida is a member of the Bank of America Board of Directors and the Northwestern University Board of Trustees. A native of Brazil, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia.