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As mergers continue in the healthcare field, I'm noticing an increasing number of clinics that are affiliated in one way or another with universities. Here's a real-world example with names changed to protect the innocent employees of the potentially-guilty employer. XYU is a large, state-sponsored university system which offers medical degrees (and engineering, history, art, literature, etc. degrees) and does medical research. There are a number of clinics throughout the state which bear the XYU name but which are not (at least in practice) "schools." Once or twice a year, medical students will do rotations at some of the clinics for a week or so. I suppose that during the week or two a year students are there, the clinics could perhaps be considered schools if you want to stretch the definition of school. However, the main purpose of the clinics is clearly to provide healthcare to the public, not to educate students. Tax records show the clinic buildings being owned by "XYU Healthcare Systems," not simply XYU. There are no gun-related signs posted on premises. You, as a member of the general public, would not know whether or not students are there unless one accompanied a doctor or nurse into your exam room.

So, are these clinics statutorily off-limits as "schools"? It's somewhat of a rhetorical question since none of us is likely to know without examining business and tax records, contracts, leases, etc. I'm just curious what the prevailing feeling is about carrying at one of these clinics. I should state that I'm not an employee of XYU, XYU Healthcare Systems, nor do I work at a clinic. I'm wondering purely from a patient's or visitor's point of view.