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On July 15, 1985, American Hospital Supply Corporation CEO Karl D. Bays and Baxter's then-CEO Vernon R. Loucks Jr. signed an agreement that merged two of the United States' "largest producers of medical supplies". [15] This was a "one-Baxter approach" in which the company provided "70% to 80% of what a hospital needed." [16]
Baxter's North Cove manufacturing site released a Hurricane Helene update on Oct. 14. "We do not yet have a timeline for when we expect production to be fully restored to pre-hurricane levels ...
Baxter's Marion, North Carolina, site is among the largest suppliers of sterile intravenous fluids and peritoneal dialysis solutions in the U.S., making 1.5 million bags daily — 60% of the ...
Most of Nashville's hospitals have a healthy supply of fluids, ... Baxter International supplied about 60% of the nation's IV fluids, and also supplied dialysis solutions to many medical centers.
Their online medical supply ordering platform serves the needs of physician offices, surgery centers, home health agencies, DMEs, labs, and long-term-care facilities. [ 45 ] In 2015, McKesson Medical-Surgical opened its new headquarters in Richmond, Virginia .
Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply dialysis, is a process of filtering the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally. This type of dialysis achieves the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as creatinine and urea and free water from the blood when the kidneys are in a state of kidney failure.
As hospitals and health care facilities work to get back up and running after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida's Big Bend, affecting several states, the medical supply chain could be at risk.
The Baxter Althane disaster in autumn 2001 was a series of 53 sudden deaths of kidney failure patients in Spain, Croatia, Italy, Germany, Taiwan, Colombia and the USA (mainly Nebraska and Texas). All had received hospital treatment with Althane hemodialysis equipment, a product range manufactured by Baxter International , USA.