Edwards Lifesciences Corporation is a Humankind 100 company whose ranking is based on its Humankind Value, a proprietary metric that provides an estimate of the overall dollar amount a company creates for investors, consumers, employees, and society at large.
Edwards Lifesciences Corp designs, develops, manufactures, and markets products and services to treat late-stage cardiovascular disease. The company offers products such as heart valve systems and hemodynamic monitoring devices.
(All values are in US Dollars, where M=Million, B=Billion, T=Trillion.)
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation is responsible for positive Humankind Value, with much of its positive value coming from Medical Devices ($41.2 B), Economic Value ($1.7 B), and Medical Services ($286.4 M). The value associated with Medical Devices and Medical Services contains our estimation of 790,000 additional years lived by people worldwide. However, there is room for improvement with respect to Greenhouse Gases (-$250.2 M) and Workplace Injuries (-$30.1 M). Medical Devices, Economic Value, Greenhouse Gases, and Workplace Injuries are attached to this company as a result of its direct business activities. This Company’s Medical Services impact is mostly or entirely a result of supply-chain relationships.