Joiner named to diversity leaders list

WEST DES MOINES — Daniel Joiner, chief diversity and community impact officer for UnityPoint Health, has been named a 2024 diversity leader by Modern Healthcare.

Modern Healthcare’s Diversity Leaders awards program honors health care executives for their commitment to improving equity and inclusion at their organization and in the overall industry.

Joiner is one of 35 healthcare executives nationwide named to this year’s list, said Unity Point in a news release.

Joiner is being recognized for several initiatives he has led at UnityPoint Health, including spearheading the development of a Cultural Resource Guide aimed at improving interactions between team members and patients from various backgrounds; acting to align UnityPoint Health’s affinity-based employee networks across the system; helping to strike a partnership with a national bank to boost access to healthcare careers for members of underrepresented groups; and establishing a program that increased the number of diverse suppliers with whom UnityPoint Health contracts by 10%

The Modern Healthcare Diversity Leader award is the latest in a series of recognitions Joiner has received this year, said UnityPoint. He also was named to Becker’s Healthcare Black Healthcare Leaders to Know and Hospital and Health System Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officers to Know lists.

Joiner was named UnityPoint Health’s first Chief Diversity Officer in 2022 and has been with the organization since 2015.