NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be conducted by the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (“MDFA”) on Friday, December 4, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. at its offices located at 99 High Street, Boston, Massachusetts, on the proposal of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (“Partners”), whose main address is 800 Boylston Street, Suite 1100, Boston, Massachusetts 02199, to approve a plan of financing generally consisting of (with all addresses in Massachusetts): I. Financing additional new costs of: A. (1) the construction of an approximately 384,000 square foot building by The Brigham and Women’s Hospital (“Brigham”) located on a portion of the existing parcel at 60, 74 Fenwood Road bounded by Fenwood Road, Vining Street and the Vining Street Extension, in Boston, to house clinical and research space and approximately 406 underground parking spaces; (2) the renovation of a 46-bed level III neonatal intensive care unit and construction of a new 20-bed level II special care nursery at Brigham comprising approximately 34,032 square feet and located at 75 Francis Street in Boston; (3)(a) the construction of an approximately 400 space underground parking facility by Brigham under 15 Francis Street, Boston, (b) the development and implementation of a system-wide common revenue processing and clinical application system, called Partners eCare, to improve the performance of Partners and its affiliates in dimensions of quality, cost and service and to integrate care across diverse and growing systems and thereby to coordinate care and (c) a data center for backup and disaster recovery to be located at 559 Forest Street in Marlborough; and (4) the construction of a 768,000 square foot office building located on Revolution Drive (Assembly Row) in Somerville to house administrative personnel; and B. the renovation, equipping and furnishing of various facilities and the acquisition or construction of various other capital improvements for Partners and its affiliates, at the respective addresses listed above and at the following locations to the extent not included therein: (1) Brigham and Women’s Health Care, Inc. (“BWHC”), Brigham, and Brigham & Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Inc. (“Faulkner”) facilities at 60, 74 Fenwood Road, 15, 45, 48, 70, 75, 80 and 90 Francis Street, 181 and 221 Longwood Avenue, 500 Brookline Avenue, Richardson Fuller Building Parking, 10 Vining Street, 101 and 116 Huntington Avenue and 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur in Boston, 830 and 850 Boylston Street in Brookline, 20 Patriot Place in Foxborough, 640, 1133 and 1153 Centre Street and 3297 Washington Street in Jamaica Plain and 1828-1832 Centre Street in West Roxbury; (2) The Massachusetts General Hospital (“MGH”) and The General Hospital Corporation (“The General”) facilities at 16, 30, 40, 40R, 60, 66, 80, 90 and 100 Blossom Street, 165, 175, 185, 275 and 316 Cambridge Street, 215, 255, 265, 267, 273 and 275 Charles Street, 30, 32, 35 and 55 Fruit Street, 12 Garden Street, 1, 3 and 9 Hawthorne Place, 99 and 125 Nashua Street, 10, 15 and 40 Parkman Street, 25 North Anderson Street, 1 and 10 North Grove Street, 10 Whittier Place, 0, 2, 5 and 10 Emerson Place, 1 Bowdoin Square, 1 Hawthorne Place, 294 Washington Street, 332 Hanover Street, 388 Commonwealth Avenue, Charles Street Parking Garage at 165 Cambridge Street, Fruit Street Parking Garage, Wang Ambulatory Care Center Parking Lot on Parkman Street in Boston, 185 Alewife Brook Parkway in Cambridge, 100 1st Avenue, 62 13th Street, 73 High Street and 76 Monument Street in Charlestown, 80, 100 and 151 Everett Avenue in Chelsea, 102 Endicott Street in Danvers, 19-23 Norwood Street in Everett, 1 Maguire Road in Lexington, 300 Broadway and 300 Ocean Avenue in Revere, 40 and 52 Second Avenue in Waltham; (3) Martha’s Vineyard Hospital at One Hospital Road in Oak Bluffs; (4) Nantucket Cottage Hospital at 57 Prospect Street in Nantucket; (5) Newton-Wellesley Hospital (“NWH”) facilities at 2000 and 2014 Washington Street in Newton, 9 Hope Avenue in Waltham, 25 Washington Street in Wellesley and 45 Colpitts Road in Weston; (6) North Shore Medical Center (“NSMC”) facilities at 480, 490, 496 and 500 Lynnfield Street and 694 Western Avenue in Lynn, 1 Widger Road in Marblehead, 6 Essex Center Drive and 17 Centennial Park in Peabody, 108 Jefferson Avenue, 116R, 55, 57, 79 and 81 Highland Avenue in Salem; (7) The McLean Hospital Corporation (“McLean”) facilities at 115 Mill Street and 127 Pleasant Street in Belmont; (8) Spaulding Nursing and Therapy Center North End (“Spaulding”) facilities at 70 Fulton Street in Boston; (9) The Spaulding Hospital-Cambridge, Inc. facilities at 1575 Cambridge Street in Cambridge; (10) Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands, Inc. (“RHCI”) facilities at 311 Service Road in East Sandwich and 280-D Route 130 in Sandwich; (11) FRC, Inc. facilities at 1245 Centre Street in West Roxbury; (12) Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital, Inc. (“Shaughnessy”) facilities at 1 Dove Avenue in Salem; (13) Partners facilities at 38 13th Street in Charlestown, 100 Endicott Street in Danvers and 128 1st Avenue in Needham; and (14) Cooley Dickinson Health Care Corp. facilities at 100 and 170 University Drive, 313 Northampton Road and 150 Infirmary Way in Amherst, 175 State Street in Belchertown, 238 Northampton Street in Easthampton, 10 and 40 Main Street and 15 Straw Avenue in Florence, 232-234 and 380 Russell Street in Hadley, 4 West Street in Hatfield, 38 Mulberry Street in Leeds, 30, 61 and 193 Locust Street, 25 Graves Avenue, 76 Carlon Drive, 168 Industrial Drive, 264 Elm Street, 241 King Street, 1 and 9 Denniston Place, 2 and 90 Conz Street, 8 and 22 Atwood Drive in Northampton, 21 Elm Street and 235 Greenfield Road in South Deerfield, 84 Willimansett Street in South Hadley, 6 Parc Place and Big Y Shopping Center in Southampton, 65 Springfield Road in Westfield, 14 Williams Street in Williamsburg and 58 Old North Road in Worthington; and II. Refinancing existing completed projects including: A. (1) the construction and improvements by NWH of various portions of the NWH Hospital complex (as defined below), including the acquisition of and upgrades to various items of capital equipment at the NWH Hospital complex; (2) the following projects owned and/or operated by The General: (a) tenant improvements and fit out of approximately 355,000 square feet of space leased by The General at Charles River Plaza (185 Cambridge Street in Boston); (b) construction and renovation of four operating rooms of approximately 28,200 square feet at the ambulatory surgery center operated by The General known as MGH West and located at 40 Second Avenue in Waltham; and (c) renovations to various clinical areas at (i) The General’s Chelsea Health Center located at 151 Everett Avenue in Chelsea, and (ii) The General’s main campus bounded by Charles Street, Blossom Street, Cambridge Street and Fruit Street in Boston (“The General’s Main Campus”); (3) the following projects owned and/or operated by the Brigham: (a) a portion of the cost of acquisition by the Brigham of the ServiCenter located at 80 Francis Street in Boston, which includes a parking garage with approximately 650 parking spaces, physicians’ offices, hospital supply handling facilities and a small parcel of vacant land; (b) renovations to ambulatory clinical areas at 850 Boylston Street in Brookline; (c) renovations and upgrades to inpatient and outpatient clinical areas and physician faculty offices at various locations on the Brigham’s main campus at 15-75 Francis Street in Boston; (d) construction of a cardiovascular center of approximately 350,000 square feet at 70 Francis Street in Boston; (e) administrative and research space renovations to facilities at 801 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston; (f) renovations to clinical space at One Brookline Place in Brookline; (g) renovations to clinical space and physician faculty offices at One Brigham Circle in Boston; and (h) the acquisition and installation of capital equipment and construction of improvements and renovations to existing facilities at the above locations; (4) the construction and renovation by NWH of approximately 77,000 square feet of space used for the emergency department, operating room build-out, and ambulatory build-out and a 570 space parking garage all located at 2014 Washington Street in Newton (the “NWH Hospital complex”); and (5) the acquisition and improvements of a portion of the building located at 128 First Avenue in Needham and installation of capital equipment therein used by Partners as a data center; B. (1) the following projects at the NWH Hospital complex: (a) the conversion of 22 beds, approximately 8,800 gross square feet, of the 42-bed maternity unit to labor delivery recovery rooms; (b) the renovation of the inpatient pediatric unit, approximately 11,000 gross square feet, and the relocation of the inpatient and outpatient pediatric gastroenterology facility; (c) the relocation and expansion of the outpatient physical therapy rehabilitation services area, approximately 5,000 gross square feet, including the upgrading of equipment and treatment facilities; and (d) NWH’s five-year capital plan to acquire and upgrade hospital equipment and to undertake various internal renovations; (2)(a)(i) the demolition of the former residence hall portion of approximately 58,400 square feet of the former Boston Lying-In Hospital complex, (ii) the construction of a new seven-level research laboratory wing of 99,659 square feet on the demolition site, (iii) the construction