Baxter Driver

[Luisa Rodocker]

Our90-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.

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.

Each year, the National Private Truck Council (NPTC) honors only four drivers from across the United States who exemplify a lifetime of outstanding safety performance on the road and service excellence in their companies. Since becoming a professional driver for Baxter in 1988, Chris has logged more than one million miles, all with a clear safety record. That's the equivalent of driving two round trips to the moon!

In a typical day, Chris delivers and unloads about 20,000 pounds of dialysis solution to the homes of patients with kidney disease around the St. Louis area. Over his career, he has delivered an estimated 44 million pounds of product, each of which contributes to our mission to Save and Sustain Lives. He also serves as the primary trainer for other drivers on his team.

"Chris demonstrates daily what it truly means to Save and Sustain Lives," said Daniel Gentry, Baxter regional operations manager who nominated Chris for the award. Daniel added that Chris has established valuable relationships with nurses, clinics and industry experts, and has amassed a wealth of knowledge that he gladly shares with colleagues and patients alike.

"These individuals make our industry proud," said Tom Moore, executive vice president of NPTC of Chris and three other Hall of Fame inductees. "Chris treats this not as a driving job, but as a calling . . . he delivers hope."

Chris just tries to take everything in stride, to serve patients who he has befriended over the years, and to "be the best I can be" each day, he said. "I want to do a great job for the patients, for Baxter, and for myself."

NPTC also awarded Baxter first place in the Mixed Large Operations Fleet Safety Awards for the third consecutive year. For the past 10 years, Baxter has placed in the top three for outstanding safety performance for its fleet of more than 100 vehicles, a testament to our drivers' commitment to delivering products safely. View a video of Chris accepting his award.

Introducing the next evolution in hemodialysis that brings us a step closer to the natural kidney through superior removal of an expanded range of conventional/large middle molecules (up to 45,000 Da),

The My Baxter Customer Service Portal makes managing prescriptions and placing orders for your patients simple and efficient, allowing you to spend more time on patient care. My Baxter can be accessed via a laptop, tablet or smartphone and offers an intuitive interface for a flexible and streamlined user experience. The Standing Orders feature of My Baxter can save you time and ensure orders are placed on time for your patients. You can also use My Baxter to register your patients for the My Baxter Patient Portal.

Your patients can use both My Baxter and Mobile Ordering. Click on the links above and below to learn more about these online tools and how you and your patients can use them to optimize PD prescription and supply management.

Analytics 1.0 is a data trend detection and clinical decision support upgrade that integrates seamlessly with your Sharesource clinical portal. Analytics 1.0 transforms the patient treatment data received from compatible automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) cyclers into meaningful data visualizations. It offers notifications on important trend changes and guidance to support clinical decision-making.

The Baxter Home Options Network (HON) is a unique suite of services, expertise and resources tailored to your needs to help you establish and optimize an independent home dialysis program.

Baxter's Global Travel Club may offer your PD patients the option to travel while performing therapy. Click the link below for more details, including preparation steps, important considerations and helpful tips.

Baxter offers the only fleet of PD dedicated drivers, providing personalized service for patient deliveries. Baxter drivers deliver to patient homes in all 50 states of the U.S., often getting to know their customers with in-home deliveries on their longstanding routes. Your patients can expect a 3-hour delivery window for their PD supplies, and they can sign up for Driver Alerts via text and email.

Baxter's Global Travel Club may offer you the option to travel while performing therapy. Click the link below for more details, including preparation steps, important considerations and helpful tips.

Baxter offers the only fleet of PD dedicated drivers, providing personalized service for patient deliveries. Baxter drivers deliver to patient homes in all 50 states of the U.S., often getting to know their customers with in-home deliveries on their longstanding routes. You can expect a 3-hour delivery window for your PD supplies, and you can sign up for Driver Alerts via text and email.

If you would have told Greg Baxter of Brodhead, Wisconsin, that he was going to be asked to give a speech for his racing accomplishments for the 2010 racing season at Madison International Speedway you probably would have received a pretty strange look.

In his rookie season Baxter realized one of his goals when he won his first race, an eight lap heat race on August 27, 2010. That season he and Wickstrum teamed up to finish fourth in the Sportsman point standings which also earned him the aforementioned rookie of the year honors.

In 2011 Baxter finished in fifth place overall in the Sportsman division with 752 points in his first full season behind the wheel. On his way to his top five finish, Baxter picked up two heat race wins.

Like most of the drivers at MIS, Baxter has to juggle many responsibilities during the week. In addition to being one of the Friday night stars at MIS, he also manages a grain elevator in Orfordville, farms, and coaches youth sports in the summer.

These arguments are false and self-serving. Right-to-repair laws would not force automakers to reveal any trade secrets or proprietary information, but only the same information that they already share with their dealerships. Right-to-repair laws would not affect vehicle warranties or recalls, which are regulated by federal law. And fears of cybersecurity risks are overblown, fanned by scare-tactic ad campaigns designed to defeat vehicle right-to-repair initiatives at the state level.

Further, the automakers are acting hypocritically. On the one hand, they oppose letting vehicle owners and independent repair shops have access to that data so that owners can repair their cars, but they boast of the value created for their companies by driver data. Indeed, the remarkable extent to which car companies share driver data has recently come to light.

The REPAIR Act would guarantee that vehicle owners can get the parts, tools and information they need to choose aftermarket parts while ensuring cybersecurity is prioritized. The SMART Act would reduce automaker patents on collision repair parts from 14 to 2.5 years, which would allow aftermarket parts makers to make and test parts during the newly defined patent period.

These bills are common-sense measures that would ensure that consumers have more options and transparency when it comes to repairing and protecting their cars. They would also create a level playing field for independent repair shops, which employ Americans and support local economies. Moreover, Americans overwhelmingly want them. A June 2023 survey for the CAR Coalition conducted by YouGov found that 94 percent of American vehicle owners want to choose where their vehicle is repaired.

Almost 3 years ago, I bought a late-model used car from a dealer of the same brand. I was quite impressed with the dealership and how they treated their customers, so I regularly drove 99 miles for regular servicing. But finally, it took the car over there and told the service manager that I had detected a slight alignment problem. When they brought the car back to me, they had not done an alignment, but charged me the price of an alignment just to tell me that I needed an alignment. Needless to say, I am now getting my servicing done at an independent auto service shop.

Before a driver license testing applicant will be permitted to begin the testing process there are particular documents and records the applicant will be required to have ready for inspection by the testing examiner.

The Minnesota State Patrol responded to the crash at 7:16 p.m. According to the crash report, a Chevrolet GMT was southbound on Highway 371 when the driver attempted to make a left turn onto Design Road, striking a northbound Ford F-150.

The 16-year-old driver of the Chevrolet suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital. The Ford driver suffered no reported injuries. The names of those involved in the crash were not released.

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