Nurse Disrupted delivers telehealth to resource deserts with easy, all-in-one box kit
Bre Loughlin and Tracy Zvenyach have taken everything they learned while serving the homeless shelters and put it into a box.
May 11, 2021 7:00 AM Maggie Ginsberg
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Bre Loughlin
When Nurse Disrupted’s Bre Loughlin and Tracy Zvenyach earned Madison Magazine’s Top Nurses Innovation Award in January, it was for their tremendous effort organizing COVID-19 screenings at Madison’s homeless shelters. To date, more than 200 volunteer nurses have conducted 16,000 screenings. That work continues, unplanned as it was the women were “building the airplane in the air,” as Loughlin puts it but they never expected where it would land them next.
Top Nurses 2020: Nurse Disrupted is screening the shelters
Bre Loughlin and Tracy Zvenyach of Nurse Disrupted were recipients of the innovation award.
December 17, 2020 8:07 AM Maggie Ginsberg
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Bre Loughlin (left) and Tracy Zvenyach
Bre Loughlin and Tracy Zvenyach had 39 years of nursing experience between them when the COVID-19 pandemic started. Zvenyach, a registered nurse with a Ph.D. in health policy who teaches nursing students at Georgetown University as an assistant professor, spent the past decade working first on Capitol Hill and then for a pharmaceutical company. Loughlin was an executive at Epic Systems Corp. until May 2020, where she’d launched five products in eight years on the clinical informatics team. Before that, she’d been a front line nurse. The two have been neighbors and close friends for years.