On the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene, Baxter Healthcare's massive North Cove plant looked back at how the site has recovered and evolved since the massive storm. These are two employees featured in a video made by Baxter.
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For more than 52 years, Baxter has been a big part of the North Cove community of McDowell County. The 1.4-million-square-foot plant is the largest manufacturer of intravenous (IV) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) solutions in the United States and is Baxter's largest manufacturing facility in the world.
This photo shows some of the flooding caused by Helene inside the Baxter healthcare plant in North cove.
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This photo shows the outside of the Baxter healthcare plant in North cove following the destruction caused by hurricane Helene.
The first 1,000 employees were welcomed back to the site on Oct. 14, 2024, and the plant completed a deep cleaning for production rooms within the plant on Oct. 19.
The Baxter healthcare plant in North cove currently has more than 2,500 employees and they live in Mcdowell and surrounding counties. More than 1 million IV solutions are produced at this plant every day.
When hurricane Helene hit, the interior of the huge plant was flooded, and many employees were displaced from their homes.
On the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene, Baxter Healthcare's massive North Cove plant looked back at how the site has recovered and evolved since the massive storm.
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On the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene, Baxter Healthcare's massive North Cove plant looked back at how the site has recovered and evolved since the massive storm. These are two employees featured in a video made by Baxter.
For more than 52 years, Baxter has been a big part of the North Cove community of McDowell County. The 1.4-million-square-foot plant is the largest manufacturer of intravenous (IV) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) solutions in the United States and is Baxter's largest manufacturing facility in the world.
The first 1,000 employees were welcomed back to the site on Oct. 14, 2024, and the plant completed a deep cleaning for production rooms within the plant on Oct. 19.
The Baxter healthcare plant in North cove currently has more than 2,500 employees and they live in Mcdowell and surrounding counties. More than 1 million IV solutions are produced at this plant every day.
