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Avanos Medical, Inc.

Formerly	Halyard Health, Inc. (2014–2018)
Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: AVNS S&P 600 component
Industry	Healthcare
Founded	2014; 10 years ago (2014)
Headquarters	Alpharetta, Georgia, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Joseph F. Woody^[1] (CEO)
Products	Digestive Health Respiratory Health Pain Management Intravenous therapy
Number of employees	5,380 (2020)

Avanos Medical, Inc. is a medical technology company making clinical medical devices. The company consists of two franchises – Pain Management and Chronic Care – that address reducing the use of opioids while helping patients recover faster and preventing infection.^{[citation needed]}

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Avanos Medical also manufactures and distributes Eternal Access System to help healthcare provides to fit feeding tubes into a patient safely - that is the Cortak 2.^[2]

They describe Cortrak 2 system as "a time-saving solution that benefits nurses of all levels, dieticians, and GI and ICU doctors."

In April 2022, it was reported that a voluntary field correction had been issued by the company for a vital hospital tool that could have led to injury or even death.^[3]

Avanos sells its brands and products in more than 90 countries^[4] and operates 8 principal medical device production facilities – generating approximately $612 million in net revenue.^[when?]^[4]

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