2024 NC Baxter Plant
Response
Healthcare Ready is currently ENGAGED for impacts of damages done to the NC Baxter Plant. We monitor supply chain needs and community impact with the assistance of our private and public sector partners.
Healthcare Ready's Releases on NC Baxter Plant
Stay up to date with Healthcare Ready’s Releases regarding the NC Baxter Plant:
Overview
- Baxter’s North Cove plant located in Marion, North Carolina, experienced severe flooding from Hurricane Helene and is currently closed for production.
- The surrounding area is also impacted, including damaged roads and a collapsed bridge along US 221 leading to the plant.
- The North Cove plant is the largest IV solutions plant in the US producing 1.5 million bags of IV solution/day.
- The facility supplies 60% of IV solutions domestically.
- Baxter International Inc. faced production disruptions in 2017 due to Hurricane Maria. The storm caused power outages and damage to the company’s three manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico, leading to reduced output and requiring imports from its facilities abroad.
Healthcare Ready's Role during the NC Baxter Plant response
Healthcare Ready works to monitor and evaluate the situation around the damage and provide analysis of its implications. We aim to provide information across sectors to supply information to all parties involved or impacted. Healthcare Ready is focusing efforts on highlighting challenges and supporting solutions to these challenges from the damages.
A part of monitoring during this time is through Rx Open. Rx Open provides information on the operating status of healthcare facilities in areas impacted by a disaster. When the map is active for an event, users can use the Facilities map to search for individual facility status such as pharmacies, community health centers, and dialysis centers.
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