Association for Healthcare Foodservice Awards

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Lifetime Achievement Award is AHF's highest award. It recognizes members who best exemplify the leadership and spirit of Jacques Bloch and Angelo Gagliano the founders of our legacy organizations.

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.

Exemplary Leadership Award recognizes a member who best reflects operational excellence and/or contributions to regional, local chapters or networking meetings.

Criteria

1. Project scope, complexity , timeliness and applicability
2. Demonstrated initiative, resourcefulness & utilization of AHF tools
3. Contributions and achieved results to AHF, employer and community
4. Role model of leadership skills
5. Professional self development and contributions

Partnership in Leadership Award recognizes up to three operator member facilities that demonstrate a strong commitment to self-operation and who support the foodservice department leader.

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

Criteria

1. Scope, complexity and duration of director/administrator relationship
2. Obstacles encountered and resolutions achieved by working together
3. Project Results
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 financial management.

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 document/s 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.

AHF Making a Difference Award recognizes business partner and media partners. It is given in memory of John Cabot whose continued involvement and support over two decades helped define the partnership between operators and business partners.