{"id":11441,"date":"2026-01-16T17:42:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=11441"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:43:03","slug":"chws-releases-new-report-on-development-and-implementation-of-the-indian-health-service-efda-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2026\/01\/16\/chws-releases-new-report-on-development-and-implementation-of-the-indian-health-service-efda-1\/","title":{"rendered":"CHWS releases new report on Development and Implementation of the Indian Health Service Expanded Function Dental Assistant-1 (EFDA-1) Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a aria-label=\"Link to the full report\" href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/publications\/development-and-implementation-of-the-indian-health-service-expanded-function-dental-assistant-1-efda-1-occupation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11443 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/wohw-efda-report-300x208.png\" alt=\"Thumbnail of the report\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/wohw-efda-report-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/wohw-efda-report-1024x710.png 1024w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/wohw-efda-report-768x532.png 768w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/wohw-efda-report-1536x1065.png 1536w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/wohw-efda-report.png 2034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This study examines and describes development and implementation of the Indian Health Service (IHS) Expanded Function Dental Assistant-1 (EFDA-1) occupation model (commonly called the \u201cperio EFDA\u201d) to provide information that can be used to explore the feasibility of implementing the model outside of the IHS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/publications\/development-and-implementation-of-the-indian-health-service-expanded-function-dental-assistant-1-efda-1-occupation\/\">Read the full study report here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wohw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11444,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions\/11444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}