Overview
- The Texas Board of Nursing replaced an emergency suspension with a limited license for Mary Liz Eastland after she signed an agreed order on Tuesday that bars her from providing direct patient care and allows her to petition for full restoration after one year.
- The order requires Eastland to complete a six-hour, board-approved Texas nursing jurisprudence and ethics course within a year and to notify current and future employers about the restrictions.
- In its findings the board said Eastland failed to maintain an adequate nursing emergency manual at Camp Mystic, did not call 911 when campers and staff were reported missing, did not report the 27 deaths to state health authorities within 24 hours, and allowed nurses to give medications under inadequate standing orders.
- The July 4, 2025 flash flood at Camp Mystic killed 25 campers and two counselors and was part of a larger Hill Country disaster, and the camp has since withdrawn its reopening bid and remains closed while multiple civil lawsuits and agency probes continue.
- Because Eastland signed the agreed order and waived judicial review she neither admitted nor denied the allegations and the board will not pursue further discipline on this file, but separate investigations by state agencies, the Texas Rangers and ongoing lawsuits could lead to additional consequences for the camp and its leaders.