Kettering Health Network CEO Fred Manchur and Cheryl Shimmin, network director of Culinary and Nutrition Care, have received the Association for Healthcare Foodservice’s (AHF’s) Partnership In Leadership award.
The AHF is composed of food and nutrition professionals from healthcare facilities that manage their own foodservice operations.
The Partnership In Leadership award recognizes operator member facilities that demonstrate a strong commitment to self-operation and leaders that support the facility’s foodservice director or foodservice administrative director.
“We are extremely honored to receive this recognition,” says Fred Manchur. “Nutrition is at the core of health care. Our vision is to provide an exceptional dining experience for hospital patients and visitors. That dining experience includes a variety of delicious meals prepared by nationally trained chefs. Patients can choose what and when they want to eat. Cheryl Shimmin and her team have done a fantastic job making sure patients, visitors, and employees experience fine dining in a healing environment.”
Manchur and Shimmin were honored this week at the AHF 2017 Annual Conference in National Harbor, Md. in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The annual conference convenes the entire self-operated healthcare foodservice industry, bringing together the brightest minds in healthcare hospitality for lively keynotes, vital education, networking opportunities, and a culinary competition.
Kettering Health Network is a not-for-profit network of eight hospitals, 10 emergency departments, and 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio. The network’s hospitals are Kettering, Grandview, Sycamore, Southview, Greene Memorial, Soin, Fort Hamilton, and Kettering Behavioral Medicine. Kettering College, a division of Kettering Medical Center, is a fully accredited college that specializes in health science education. Kettering Health Network is recognized as one of the 2017 Truven Health Analytics 15 Top Health Systems in the United States.
