Our History

Founded in 1960 as the Healthcare Foodservice Administrators Association of Greater New York, our organization now serves as the New York Chapter of our national organization, the Association for Healthcare Foodservice.

Our founder, Jacques Bloch, cemented his place in foodservice history in 1982, when he became the first hospital foodservice director to be honored with the Gold Plate Award from the International Food Manufacturers Association (IFMA). Bloch spent most of his career as the director of food and nutrition at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, New York. In 1967 he co-founded one of the two national foodservice associations that merged in 2009 to become Association for Healthcare Foodservice (AHF).

Today, AHF New York salutes Bloch’s legacy and shares AHF National’s mission: To promote, support and connect healthcare foodservice professionals, assuring food and nutrition services are valued as an essential contributor to the mission of the healthcare organizations we serve.
   

Who We Serve

We’re dedicated to serving professionals in New York’s self-operated healthcare foodservice industry. Our members represent those healthcare facilities that, by choosing to keep their foodservice departments managed by the facility (instead of outsourcing them to third-party contractors), keep food and nutrition at the core of the healthcare experience.

Our members manage some of the most successful and creative departments in healthcare. Our operators and vendors work together to create the dialogue that defines the future of the healthcare foodservice experience, while advancing our vision of self-operated healthcare foodservice as industry best practice.