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The woman was admitted to a lodge on her third visit to the Lorn and Islands hospital.
A health watchdog criticized the NHS Highland for failing a woman who died of cancer.
The woman twice went to the Oban's Lorn and Islands hospital with symptoms of vomiting and was twice discharged.
She was wrongly diagnosed with a urinary tract infection, said the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman.
However, during a third visit to the hospital, the woman was admitted to a ward and was diagnosed with cancer. She died later of her illness.
The Ombudsman (SPSO) has upheld his family's complaints about his treatment.
After an initial badessment at her first visit to the hospital's emergency department, a woman, who was not named, received antibiotics.
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The woman received antibiotics during her first visit to Accident and Emergency
She returned two days later and was badessed again before being sent home.
About five days later, she returned to the hospital and was finally admitted to a common room.
Investigations were made and it was discovered that she had cancer that had spread through her body. Her health deteriorated during her admission and she pbaded away.
"Unreasonable decisions"
The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) stated that the patient had been "unreasonably discharged" from the emergency department twice without her symptoms being effectively managed.
The watchdog also found that a wrong diagnosis had been reached during the first visit and that his second visit to the hospital was "poorly documented".
She clarified that when she was finally admitted to a unit, there was an "unreasonable delay" in obtaining a CT scan of the chest and abdomen.
The SPSO noted that the NHS Highland had apologized to the patient's family for inaccurate information regarding the delay in obtaining test results.
But he recommended to the health commission to apologize for the "unreasonable decisions" to release the woman twice, for the erroneous diagnosis of a urinary tract infection and for the poor documentation of her second hospitalization.
NHS Highland should also apologize for the "unreasonable delay" during the badysis, said the mediator.
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