More than 75% of Kentucky physicians are in urban parts of the state.

Kentucky's Senate president says that leaves many rural counties without proper health care.

He's calling on three Kentucky universities to come up with solutions.

Senate Joint Resolution 116, sponsored by State Senator Robert Stivers, directs the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville, and Eastern Kentucky University to draw up solutions to address the state's physician shortage.

The universities would be asked for data on medically underserved populations, and then detailed the resources and agencies that could help solve the problem.

But since we are the ones who create the universities, they are creatures of statute.

We can then direct them to do certain things.

So who better than those three universities to look at access to health care?

And it may not just be doctors, it may be other health care professionals.

It may be technology.

Many things there.

So, occasionally we'll see that, entities will say, well, we haven't you haven't given us any money to do this.

There is an appropriation of $250,000 that will help.

Senate Joint Resolution 116 passed unanimously on off the House Senate floor.

It now heads to the House for consideration.