Mr. Joiner provides education and cultural awareness training for UnityPoint’s 30,000 team members. He is UnityPoint Health’s first ever chief diversity officer, and his work includes developing strategy and programming to address health equity and health care disparities within the communities the system serves. He also leads the organization’s health equity efforts and has prioritized establishing a supplier diversity program designed to provide minority-owned, woman-owned, disadvantaged business enterprise, LGBTQ+-owned or Veteran-owned vendors equal access to procurement opportunities. The program drives economic impact and provides certified diverse businesses with opportunities to participate as partners and suppliers of goods and services. The initiative has more than doubled the number of diverse suppliers and increased spend by nearly $250,000 in the first year. When a law in Iowa banned gender-affirming care for minors, Mr. Joiner led a multidisciplinary group of clinicians, consultants, and marketing and communications professionals across UnityPoint Health to provide information and support to key stakeholder groups. Under his leadership, UnityPoint has established a career pathway partnership with Bank of America, established a DEI employee resource group, worked with UnityPoint’s data analytics team to create after-visit summaries in different languages, launched a DEI action committee and more.
