Healthcare Professionals

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

Healthcare Professionals

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

  • 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 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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

PD Patient Inspired to Become a Nephrology Nurse

This past fall, Christopher started his junior year of high school at Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy (IHSCA) in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Just like other kids his age, he experienced the same back-to-school jitters yet looked forward to seeing his friends and getting back to nursing club. The healthcare profession is something Christopher is passionate about and the reason he chose IHSCA – a school that focuses on the health sciences. The Leadership, Education and Development (LEAD) Nursing club, led by volunteer mentor nurses from area hospitals, helps increase his exposure to the responsibilities of nurses, including drawing blood and taking blood pressure.

Christopher is a unique 17-year-old in that he is laser focused on his future profession of nephrology nursing to care for kidney patients. Fueling his passion and professional determination is his own experience as a patient with end-stage renal disease.

At age 8, Christopher was diagnosed with a chronic disease that causes scarring of his kidneys. His kidney function eventually declined to the point where he needed to start peritoneal dialysis (PD) to manage his condition.

“Being as young as I was when diagnosed, I thought I had the flu and my condition would go away,” Christopher said. “But eventually, PD became a part of my daily routine.”

PD therapy works by cleaning the blood of toxins and removing extra fluids using one of the body’s own membranes, the peritoneal membrane, as the filter. Christopher does PD therapy at home, while he sleeps. Given his age when therapy was started, Christopher’s mother initially administered his therapy, eventually transitioning the responsibility to her son as he grew older.

Christopher has had two kidney transplants. Unfortunately, both of the transplants failed and he is again included on the National Kidney Registry.

I’m more mature than most other kids in my class and I think some of that does have to do with my health.

Christopher, Peritoneal Dialysis Patient

“Spending so much time in hospitals has inspired my career choice and determination to become a nephrology nurse,” Christopher said. “I definitely have favorite healthcare providers, including the nurses who tried to make my hospital stays more comfortable – even going as far as making my room look like the summer camp I was missing.”

“I’ve had to be more mature than most kids my age, but still enjoy hanging out with friends and participating in typical teenage activities,” said Christopher.

Christopher’s goal is to continue feeling well, so he can take one day at a time as he prepares for a future of helping others.

“Right now my focus is studying for the ACT, so I can get into a good college like Purdue where I can study nursing,” said Christopher.