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.

  • Hospital Care

    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 Products

    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
  • Critical Care

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

  • Hospital Care

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

  • Nutritional Care

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

  • Renal Care

    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.

  • Surgical Care

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

Baxter Suppliers

Baxter Suppliers

Our mission to save and sustain lives carries through our supplier base.

  • Global Supply Chain Standards:  Baxter endorses and strongly supports the GS1 standards for healthcare. We believe that industry-wide adoption of these standards will improve patient safety and drive increased efficiency and integrity.
     
  • Trade Compliance: We place a high priority on compliance with laws regulating exports, imports, and supply chain security.  Our compliance responsibilities include appropriate screening and contractual and security requirements that agents, distributors, suppliers, and other parties doing business with us must meet. In addition to meeting Baxter’s requirements, the agents, distributors, suppliers, and other parties doing business with or representing Baxter are also expected to comply with the letter and spirit of all applicable laws regulating exports, imports, and supply chain security.
     
  • Responsible Procurement & Logistics: Our global supply chain extends from the producers of raw materials utilized in manufacturing to the end users of its products. Our company is committed to building and driving a responsible supply chain.

​Policies and Standards Guiding Procurement

Global Supplier Standards Manual (released April 8, 2024)

The purpose of this document is to ensure that external Baxter suppliers meets the requirements and expectations documented in this Global Supplier Standards Manual (GSSM).

Supplier Considerations

We consider price, quality, environmental criteria and other factors when selecting and evaluating our suppliers. We also seek to maximize procurement opportunities from small, minority, women, LGBT, disable and veteran business enterprises. We do this with the intent to develop sustainable growth plans and build sound partnerships within all areas of our supply chain.

Ethics & Compliance Standards

We believe that a shared commitment to conducting business with high ethical standards will enhance our business relationships. 

Global Purchase Order Terms & Conditions

There are different versions of the Purchase Order Terms and Conditions, and each governs the purchase orders based on Baxter entity. Learn more by clicking the link below.

For Our Existing Suppliers

​Important: Supplier Notice of Change (SNC) Requirement

Notification Guidelines

We expect all our suppliers to notify us prior to making any changes that may affect conformance to defined requirements, product quality, or a regulatory filing. Notification must include the necessary change documentation demonstrating the acceptability and compliance of the change. We expect our supplier’s change control activities to be well planned and documented to assure full compliance of products to the requirements.

 

At a minimum, our suppliers are expected to:

  • Ensure that personnel executing the change are qualified
  • Evaluate all changes for product or process risk, including efficacy and safety
  • Properly document and communicate changes to Baxter, in writing, prior to execution, and
  • Obtain Baxter’s approval in the electronic system prior to implementation.

Supplier Portal

Access our portal to submit changes, view documents and review SNC status.

1. Click here to register as a new user

2. Click here to submit a new change or view existing SNC records (NOTE: You must be registered first to use this link)

Learn More

Supplier Notice of Change Tutorial