Maribel Cifuentes RN, BSN

Maribel Cifuentes have joined the Colorado Health Foundation team from of July 20, 2015.

She is the past deputy director of Advancing Care Together, a practice redesign initiative seeking proper integration of primary and behavioral care for people with emotional and behavioral problems in primary care and community mental health center settings. She left working at the University of Colorado, Department of Family Medicine from July 10, 2015.

Maribel Cifuentes is the immediate past deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Prescription for Health national program. Under this initiative, 22 primary care practice-based research networks developed, tested, and evaluated 27 practical, evidence-based strategies to improve the delivery and effectiveness of health behavior change services in frontline primary care practice. The strategies targeted four health risk behaviors: Tobacco use, unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity, risky alcohol use.