Awards Program Criteria – Updated October 21, 2011

Nominate a Member

Lifetime Achievement Award is AHF's highest award. It recognizes operator members who best exemplify the leadership and spirit of Jacques Bloch and Angelo Gagliano the founders of our legacy organizations. This award is selected by past recipients of the legacy association top honors and AHF Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

Criteria

1. Contributions to AHF including legacy associations.
2. Contributions to the healthcare and foodservice profession and industry including academia.
3. Contributions to the healthcare employers and their area of responsibility.
4. Contributions to the candidate's community, i.e. religious, fraternal, political based organizations.
5. Contributions as leadership role models for AHF values.

Making a Difference Award

The AHF Industry Advisory Board Chair will select a recipient of the Making a Difference Award, given in honor of John Cabot and is the association's top award for business partners and the media.

The Exemplary Leadership Award will be bestowed upon the operator member who best reflects the commitment to operational excellence that Don Marsh brought to healthcare foodservice. The award will recognize member contributions in their operations as well as to regional, local chapters or networking meetings. Eligibility will include operator and non-operator members. At least one member demonstrating outstanding leadership at this level will be recognized each year.

Partnership in Leadership Award recognizes up to three operator member facilities that demonstrate a strong commitment to self-operation and currently supports the foodservice director or foodservice administrative director. A presentation required at the annual conference and the schedule for the presentation decided upon by the conference planning committee.

• Hospitals with more than 200 beds
• Hospitals with less than 200 beds
• Senior Living/ Long Term Care

Criteria

1. Project primary objective and overall results
2. Scope and complexity of director/administrator relationship
3. Obstacles encountered and resolutions achieved by working together
4. Administrator support and advocacy of AHF and its members
5. Applicability to AHF membership and the healthcare industry

Spotlight Award recognizes an operator member who has enhanced operations through technology, program development, implementation, innovation and /or creative use of managing finances. A presentation may be requested by the conference planning committee for the annual conference.

Criteria

1. Project complexity and scope
2. Project initiative and leadership
3. Resourcefulness, collaboration and use of AHF tools
4. Results
5. Timeliness and applicability of project for other AHF members

Future Horizons Award recognizes up to three operator members who have practiced in the healthcare foodservice industry for five years or less, who are new to management and who demonstrate a desire for future growth through contributions to their hospitals or community.

• Hospitals with more than 200 beds
• Hospitals with less than 200 beds
• Senior Living/ Long Term Care

Criteria

1. Professional self development, work and academic experience.
2. Contributions to employer and area of responsibility.
3. Contributions to AHF and the healthcare profession.
4. Contributions to community and academia.
5. Contributions as leadership role models for AHF values.

AHF Publication Award recognizes a member who exemplifies the memory of James C. Rose's leadership and contributions in publications. Criteria would include non-propriety documents solely owned by its writer/producer who is a member of AHF and the document has been accepted and distributed publicly by a generally recognized source.

The Presidential Special Services Award

The AHF President may recognize up to three operators and/or business partners for outstanding community service, strong media support for AHF members and committee contributions.