MEET OUR STAFF

Our goal is to serve you as we would want be served.
Jan Mensink, MD

Jan Mensink, MD

Medical Director

Dr. Jan Mensink is a Family Practice physician who is Board Certified with the American Board of Family Medicine. He also has tens of thousands of hours of training and experience in Emergency Medicine and Neuro-surgery in Southern California, including San Joaquin Community Hospital in Bakersfield, California.
In 2010, Dr. Mensink made the decision to become a “Concierge Physician,” and provide Direct-Pay medical care to Bakersfield. In the summer of 2015, Dr. Mensink was honored by being named to the faculty of Western University of Health Sciences as Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine. Dr. Mensink was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and attended medical school in Edmonton, Alberta, at one of Canada’s top ranked schools. He then moved quickly into a Family Practice Residency at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida, where he received his certification and license in Family Medicine. For many years he worked in Emergency Rooms in a variety of hospitals in Southern California. He spent approximately 30,000 hours providing Emergency Room Medicine in both “rich” and “poor” sections of Los Angeles. In this setting he has seen and treated a tremendous variety of problems, illnesses, and traumas. He may not have “seen it all,” but he has seen most of it. He also spent almost 5 years in Neurosurgery Residency and has been working in that specialty here in Bakersfield since the year 2000.

Katrina Price, NP

Katrina Price, NP

Nurse Practitioner

Katrina Price joined The Practice in April 2022. She is a nurse practitioner board certified in Family Medicine dually by The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). She has been in the medical field for the past thirty nine years and really enjoys helping others achieve their optimum health by working collaboratively to obtain this goal. The Practice is a perfect setting to practice a more natural medicine to ensure physical, mental and spiritual health of others.
Originally from Alabama she moved to Bakersfield with her family in 2008. She has spent most of her professional career in emergency care prior to completing her nurse practitioner degree.

Sherry Rose, DTh

Sherry Rose, DTh

Counselor

Dr. Rose enjoys seeing people thrive in life. She focuses her counseling efforts on identity, core values, emotional maturity and truthful self-talk. She often says, “Be very careful what you tell yourself about how you feel.”  Sherry believes in the value of hope, revelation and giving as she strives to help people connect to God and others in their journey toward emotional health and freedom.  Proverbs 14:30a, “A heart at peace gives life to the body.”

Adela Carrasco, AA

Adela Carrasco, AA

Office Manager

Adela Carrasco joined The Practice in September 2022.  Her background with the Kern County Sheriff and the Kern High School District helped to create Adela’s positive attitude and attention to detail.  With an Associates in Accounting, she works hard at making the business side of the practice run.  She takes great pride in her work and in her family.  Her daughters are an important part of her daily life and she thrives on being a loving grandma.  She works hard and puts in the extra time and dedication required to learn the important details that make patients feel at home.

Tara Carter, LVN, BSP, AP, AA,

Tara Carter, LVN, BSP, AP, AA,

Charge Nurse

Tara Carter joined The Practice as our head nurse in September 2022 after working as a compliance director for a travel nurse staffing agency.  With a degree in Psychology & Liberal Arts, personal training and relationship marketing she has a broad skillset that helps her connect to the community she loves.  She married her high school sweetheart and they have 5 children and 1 grandchild.  An Idaho native, her and her husband moved to California while he served in the US Navy; however, they have called Bakersfield home for over 16 years.   Tara leans heavily on her faith in Christ to help guide her as a wife, mother, friend and especially as a nurse.  Her favorite verse, Proverbs 15:30 “A cheerful look brings joy to the heart; good news makes for good health.”