Meet Melanie Pyle, LMSW — Founder of Horizon Pacific Consulting
Elite Institutional Training. Human-Centered Solutions.
Melanie Pyle is a Medical/Hospice Social Worker, Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), and commissioned US Notary Public.
With an unparalleled career operating across world-class medical institutions, high-security federal database systems (Epic Systems, VistA, and CPRS), and complex state legal frameworks, she founded Horizon Pacific Consulting to bridge the patient administrative and care home facility gaps facing the community in Arizona.
The Foundations of My Expertise:
- The Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN): Served as a Social Worker within the world's top-ranked medical enterprise, providing comprehensive psychosocial support to oncology And transplant patients and families navigating serious illness, end-of-life care, and long-term care planning. Guiding patients and families through complex long-term care applications, assessing individualized care needs and identify appropriate long-term care accommodations, facilitating advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making in alignment with patient and family wishes.
- US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) / Department of Defense (DoD): Operated as an expert Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Social Worker. Mastered the structural rollout of the historic PACT Act (Public Law 117-168), processing complex federal medical, toxic exposure, and retroactive survivor compensation pipelines. Aid and Attendance applications.
- Encore Hospice: Supporting patient’s and families within advanced end-of-life care architectures, mental health therapy, long-term care insurance validations, and the physical preparation of vital US estate readiness plans, including Living Wills, ALTCS Applications, Advance Directives, and Durable Powers of Attorney.
Living locally in the greater phoenix, Arizona area, Melanie combines her deep social work roots of empathy and clear communication with rigorous administrative data mastery to deliver seamless, stress-free solutions for her clients, their family’s, and care homes that serve them.
