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For community health workers and staff at The Family Van, a Boston-area mobile health clinic, there’s magic in connecting with community members to offer and something special in the simple questions like, “How are you?”

ew solutions — and now — was the name of the game for health care leaders at the Boston Medical Center’s EQTY 2024 summit last week.

For the last 46 years, I’ve been a cardiopulmonary technician at Carney Hospital in Dorchester. Every day, I test people for lung diseases like asthma or bronchitis, helping to diagnose their conditions so their physician can develop a treatment plan.

Five of the seven remaining hospitals owned by Steward Health Care are on their way to officially being under new ownership, according to an announcement last week by Gov. Maura Healey.

The Massachusetts Department of Corrections last month announced a new contractor to provide health care services in state prisons, as care and mortality in prisons has received increased scrutiny in recent years.

A question haunted the month-long fight for the Edgar Benjamin Healthcare Center that ended recently with the ousting of the center’s administrator: Would the Mission Hill facility be able to continue operations even as the center’s leadership claimed that it needed to shutter due to financial challenges?

This year saw continuing health challenges and breakthrough discoveries across the state and a science landscape underlined by growing efforts to address longstanding diversity issues in the sector.

Ten community organizations in Boston’s neighborhoods that experience the greatest health disparities will receive more than $1 million in grant funding from the Boston Public Health Commission to increase health care access in the communities that need it most.

Obstetric racism. Those words hung in the air during the EQTY 2023: A Summit for Health Justice Conference held in Boston last month. At the time, a panel of doctors and community activists addressed critical questions related to “Equity in Pregnancy.”

Health care institutions have a collective responsibility to address disparities among vulnerable Black and brown people, but the institutions have been mired in a lack of cohesion and sustained progress and have made little dent in eradicating health care inequities.

After nearly 30 years at Codman Square Health Center, CEO Sandra Cotterell is planning her retirement.