July/August

CHAPTER OF THE YEAR AWARD

This award recognizes an AHF local chapter that promotes the overall Associations mission

The Association for Healthcare Foodservice (AHF) New York Chapter has been hard at work supporting its members, vendors and AHF national. Since the pandemic the chapter has been working to increase membership and has seen a steady increase year over year. During the pandemic the chapter offered all members free membership during times of hardship. The chapter’s educational programs, networking events and volunteer activities promote growth, and offer leadership skills for our members which facilitate improving performance outcomes in respective facilities. Events are subsidized by our Business Partners to remain competitive and affordable for members. Over the past two years, despite restrictions imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the New York Chapter has organized and held a variety of both virtual and in-person events offering continuing education credit for Registered Dietitians (AND) and Certified Dietary Managers (ANFP). Their CEU offerings increased from 12 to 21+ credits between 2021 and 2023. Topics have included sustainability, culinary training, DEI, navigating pandemic impacts, networking, retention and more.

Each year the chapter supports The Patridge Foundation with an annual $1,000 contribution dedicated to advancing the education of culinary and foodservice students. Members volunteer services to God’s Love We Deliver packaging meals to homebound New Yorkers. Individual members financially support a grassroots community organization St. John’s Bread for Life, a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating hunger and poverty in Brooklyn, NY. The Bronx VA supports a Dietetic Internship program with chapter student involvement and mentorship in culinary, clinical nutrition and foodservice which often leads to employment within any of the hospital systems which are members of the chapter such as Maimonides Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Medical Center, One Brooklyn Health Center and VA Hospital System to name a few. The NY chapter contributes annually to AHF National’s scholarship fund for the promotion and support of self-operated foodservice. The chapter consistently contributes to the S.O. connected magazine, sharing events with national members.

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