diff --git a/.github/workflows/inferno-us-quality-core.yml b/.github/workflows/inferno-us-quality-core.yml
index ea96ff74f..740e14f5b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/inferno-us-quality-core.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/inferno-us-quality-core.yml
@@ -27,9 +27,12 @@ env:
   # Pinned commit of our fork of inferno-framework/us-quality-core-test-kit.
   # Provides both the Inferno stack and the fixture bundles loaded into HFS,
   # so the suite and its data always move together. The fork carries no
-  # upstream tags, so pin by SHA: 41fc954 is upstream v0.2.0.
+  # upstream tags, so pin by SHA: 4b8bc2b is the fork's helios/ci-combined-fixes,
+  # upstream v0.2.0 (41fc954) plus our two fixes that are open upstream as
+  # inferno-framework/us-quality-core-test-kit#45 and #46. Move the pin back
+  # to an upstream release once one includes them.
   TEST_KIT_REPO: HeliosSoftware/us-quality-core-test-kit
-  TEST_KIT_REF: ${{ inputs.test_kit_ref || '41fc954beee8e9046e7935a043e470966de9b890' }}
+  TEST_KIT_REF: ${{ inputs.test_kit_ref || '4b8bc2b814ee253058cf5820d35aab6e13d0640e' }}
   # Remote Docker host (set via GitHub repository secrets or variables; leave unset for local Docker)
   DOCKER_HOST: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_HOST }}
   DOCKER_HOST_IP: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_HOST_IP }}
@@ -268,16 +271,10 @@ jobs:
           # An entry here must suppress a *real* failure in the suite it is
           # emitted for (#492); the "Report omissions that suppressed nothing"
           # step below keeps the list honest. Baseline against the kit's own
-          # fixtures on sqlite: 578 pass / 1 skip / 1 fail, the fail being:
-
-          # simple_observation multiple-or status search: a test-kit/fixture
-          # gap, not an HFS one. The test searches category=sdoh (its first
-          # fixed category value) with every status OR'd, but takes the
-          # statuses it expects back (final, cancelled) from the patient's
-          # simple observations of *any* category. The kit's example bundle
-          # has no sdoh-category Observation at all, so the correct answer is
-          # an empty Bundle and the test fails against any conformant server.
-          OMITTED="\"${SUITE}-${SUITE}_fhir_api-${SUITE}_simple_observation-${SUITE}_simple_observation_patient_category_status_search_test\""
+          # fixtures at the pinned ref: 580 pass on every backend, so the list
+          # is empty. Upstream v0.2.0 was 578 pass / 1 skip / 1 fail; both were
+          # test-kit gaps, fixed in the pinned ref (see TEST_KIT_REF).
+          OMITTED=""
 
           echo "OMITTED_TESTS=[${OMITTED}]" >> $GITHUB_ENV