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.

  • 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 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
  • Baxter in France

    Baxter in France

  • 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.

Stephen Thompson

President and General Manager, Baxter Canada

Stephen Thompson

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Stephen Thompson joined Baxter in 2007 and has held senior leadership roles in Australia and New Zealand in the Pharmacy Services and Medication Delivery Businesses, as well as in Supply Chain. In April 2016, Thompson was named president & general manager in Canada and appointed to the Baxter International leadership team.

Thompson holds a First Class Honours Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia and has over 25 years’ experience across a variety of industries, working for organizations including Nestlé and Procter & Gamble. Thompson is currently a member of GS1 Canada Carenet Healthcare Sector Board.

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