Healthcare Professionals

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.

  • From the pharmacy to the bedside, we help you maximize safety, streamline processes and build cost efficiency throughout the hospital.

  • 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.

  • 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

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  • 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.

​James R. Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D.

​Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer, Healing Our Village, Inc.

​James R. Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D.

James R. Gavin, III, M.D., Ph.D. has served as a director of Baxter since 2003.

Dr. Gavin is chief executive officer and chief medical officer of Healing Our Village, Inc., a corporation that specializes in targeted advocacy, training, education, disease management, and outreach for health care professionals and minority communities. He previously served as executive vice president for clinical affairs at Healing Our Village from 2005 to 2007. Dr. Gavin is also clinical professor of medicine and senior advisor of health affairs at Emory University, a position he has held since 2005, and clinical professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, a position he has held since 2008. From 2002 to 2005, Dr. Gavin was president of the Morehouse School of Medicine and from 1991 to 2002, he was senior science officer at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a non-profit medical research organization. He previously served as a director of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Baxalta (before it was acquired by Shire in June 2016).