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Committed to helping you enhance your practice and the experience of your patients through connected devices and digitalised data sharing.

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    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

  • 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, 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.

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

  • Inclusion & Diversity

    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.

  • Respiratory Care

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

Remembering Melissa: A Story of Love, Courage, and Community

At Baxter, our people shape our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives every day. In this story we remember Melissa Guinn, a mother, wife, daughter, former colleague and friend, whose life and legacy continue to inspire us. 

A North Cove Love Story 

As an employee at Baxter's North Cove, N.C., manufacturing facility, Melissa was surrounded by family. Her parents and siblings all worked in different areas of the plant, and so did her soon-to-be husband. 

"At Baxter, everyone knows each other. You don't have to worry because you know they’re going to help you when you need it," said Bernice Hensley, a North Cove employee for the past 30 years and Melissa's mother. "We spend time together outside of work, whether it's picnics at the lake or dinner after a shift. That sense of community is what makes us strong."

Melissa first met her husband, Jamie Guinn, while working at Baxter. Jamie, who worked in packing, vividly recalls the exact moment: it was the night of April 16, 2006, during the third shift at North Cove. While in the cafeteria, Jamie saw his chance and struck up conversation with the woman he'd been quietly admiring for weeks.  

"The first time I really talked to Melissa was after work. We ended up outside and sat in the parking lot for hours, just talking. From that night on, we were inseparable. She had this way of making every conversation feel like the most important one, and the connection never faded," remembers Jamie. 

The two quickly fell in love and on Halloween, Melissa's favorite holiday, Jamie proposed with a jack-o-lantern style proposal – carving "Will you marry me?" into a series of pumpkins. This thoughtful act was demonstrative of their loving, playful relationship and the family they would build, bringing together Melissa's three children and their son River. 

Hurricane Helene 

In September 2024, Hurricane Helene struck North Carolina, where Baxter's North Cove facility is located. Jamie and Melissa were at home with River taking shelter from the storm when the ground began to move. As an unimaginably powerful landslide swept away their garage and began to engulf their home, chaos ensued but Melissa’s motherly instincts remained strong – seeing another wave of mud approaching, she yelled and signaled for Jamie to move River to different ground. Because of Melissa's warning, Jamie and River made it to safety.  

Although safe from the storm, Jamie was badly injured and admitted to the hospital. Meanwhile, Bernice and Brian Hensley – Melissa's parents and long-time Baxter employees – spent days searching through mud and debris looking for her. They drove under fallen trees, through power lines that were hanging in the roads, and used logs to cross water and creeks where destroyed homes were afloat. Tragically, Melissa did not survive and is remembered by her family as a hero. 

While Jamie suffered a broken back and recovered in the hospital for weeks, the family was able to return to what was left of Jamie and Melissa's home and recovered some of Melissa's treasured belongings: her wedding dress and rings, a pair of purple cowboy boots, and a quilt that Bernice had made to mark Jamie and Melissa's 17th anniversary. The quilt was stitched with love letters the couple had written each other, Bible pages from their wedding and photos of them together.  

The Baxter Community  

Baxter friends and neighbors showed up immediately to support Jamie and Melissa's family. In addition to the Employee Resource Center, a central location which provided Baxter employees and the surrounding community with necessities such as food, water, and generators for their homes, coworkers organized donations, brought trailers full of clothes and food, and started a GoFundMe campaign to support the family.  

"At Baxter, saving and sustaining lives isn't just about the patients or products we support, it's personal. In times like this, we show up for one another with the same care and commitment we bring to the people who rely on us every day," said Hope Murdock, executive assistant at North Cove.  

A Testament to Love and Resilience  

In honor of Melissa, family members replicated her rose tattoo and created a Build-A-Bear with angel wings that contains a voice recording from Melissa saying, "I love you" to hear her voice when they're missing her.  

"I knew my colleagues would be there, but the outpouring of love and support during this difficult time is beyond anything I could have imagined," said Brian. 

But it's not just through these actions that Melissa's legacy lives on – whenever one of her sons laughs, Jamie prepares for another Halloween or Bernice puts on those purple cowboy boots, the family feels and is comforted by her presence.