C diff room downtime

Hello all,

I work in an outpatient GI lab and I am just curious what other facilities do in a particular situation. As a rule, we are not supposed to take active C Diff patients, they should be cleared before having an endoscopy. That being said, every now and again, a patient may come in and we are unaware of the infection until the endoscopy is performed. As soon as we become aware of the infection, the room is terminally cleaned with bleach as are all other areas (pre-op, recovery, restrooms etc.) and then left to 'rest' for one hour. The one hour understandably sets us pretty far behind for the day and can be very frustrating for our patients. We have always done the one hour rest time but when I read the literature I can't seem to find where this came from. Do any other facilities have the 'rest' time or has anyone seen any literature about this practice?