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Image caption: Dr. Karen Rasmussen.<\/em><\/p>\n
Dr. Rasmussen is a board-certified family physician who has cared for patients in Southern California for more than a decade. Since 2011, she has practiced comprehensive outpatient family medicine at Optum’s Orange County location in Los Alamitos. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of California, Irvine, where she was part of the Campuswide Honors Program and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She then completed her medical degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine before returning to Southern California to complete her family medicine residency at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center, the same program where Dr. Sotelo and Dr. Hu trained.<\/p>\n
Her arrival brings capacity for up to 300 new patients to a practice model that caps each physician’s panel at 300 \u2014 roughly one-fifth the load carried by physicians in traditional insurance-based primary care.<\/p>\n
“I am joining New Cadence because I want to be able to practice medicine the way it should be practiced,” said Dr. Rasmussen. “Longer visits that aren\u2019t rushed, better availability, responding promptly to patients when they reach out, and taking the time to actually get to know them. These things are just not possible within the system most primary care physicians operate in today.”<\/p>\n
Dr. Rasmussen joins founder Dr. Cordelia Sotelo and Dr. Jasia Hu at the practice’s Bellflower Boulevard office. Dr. Sotelo’s panel is currently full; Dr. Hu, who joined in December 2025, continues to accept new patients.<\/p>\n
“Karen is exactly the kind of physician we built this practice for,” said Dr. Cordelia Sotelo, founder of New Cadence Healthcare. “She’s experienced, deeply patient-centered, and as committed as we are to the idea that primary care should be a relationship \u2014 not a 7-minute transaction. And there’s something meaningful about the three of us coming from the same residency program. We share a foundation of how we were trained to care for patients.”<\/p>\n